Catalog
20 Yuan
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Size | 145 × 70 mm |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of Mao Zedong at right in brown tones over a multicolour guilloche underprint in teal, pink, and orange; the national coat of arms is positioned at upper left beneath the bank title 中国人民银行 running across the top margin. A large denomination numeral '20' occupies the centre above the Chinese character inscription 贰拾圆 within an octagonal frame enclosing a lotus flower vignette, while an optically variable ink numeral appears at upper right and a red serial number is printed at lower left. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of the karst limestone peaks along the Li River near Guilin, printed in green and blue tones with a multicolour guilloche border; the romanised bank title ZHONGGUO RENMIN YINHANG runs across the upper right, with the denomination and issuer name repeated in Mongolian, Tibetan, Uyghur, and Zhuang minority scripts along the upper and lower margins. Vertical Arabic numeral '20' appears at upper left with a second instance at lower left, the issue year 2005年 is placed at lower centre-right, and microprinting reading '20RMB20RMB' and '人民币人民币' runs along the bottom edge. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread, Optically variable ink |
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