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| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 1949 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette presents a lakeside pavilion at left and a multi-arch stone bridge at right, set against a clouded sky rendered in fine intaglio line work. Two red seal impressions appear in the lower corners, flanking the denomination 貳佰圓 in large bold characters at centre. The issuing authority and bank name legends run along the upper and lower margins in traditional right-to-left Chinese script. |
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| Obverse lettering | 行銀民人國中 圓佰貳 年八十三國民華中 (Translation: People's Bank of China Two Hundred Yuan Republic of China year 38) |
| Reverse description | Printed in brown on cream paper, the reverse is composed entirely of elaborate guilloche work with three large numeral '200' medallions — one at centre and one at each lateral extremity — each enclosed within dense rosette and lathe-work borders. The year '1949' appears at the base of the central medallion, with the bank name inscribed in Chinese characters along the upper margin. |
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