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| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 1949 |
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| Value | 200 Yuan |
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| Obverse description | A foundry vignette at left centre shows industrial machinery with workers in an intaglio-style engraving, rendered in brown tones on a lightly patterned underprint. The denomination 貳佰圓 appears in large Chinese characters at right within an ornate cartouche, flanked by repeated corner value tablets reading 貳佰. The issuer name 中國人民銀行 is inscribed at top centre, with the Republic year notation 中華民國三十八年 along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by an elaborate guilloche pattern centred on the large numeral 200, enclosed within a series of ornate lacy borders and foliate scrollwork in brown ink. The issuer name 中國人民銀行 is inscribed at the top, with the denomination 貳佰圓 repeated in Chinese characters on both the left and right panels. The date 1949 appears in Western numerals within a cartouche at the bottom centre. |
| Reverse lettering | 行銀民人國中 貳 佰 圓 1949 (Translation: People's Bank of China Two Hundred Yuan) |
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