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5 Yuan
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 1980 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a Tibetan woman and a Hui elder in three-quarter profile facing left, rendered in fine intaglio engraving against a multicolour guilloche underprint. Arabic numeral denomination '5' appears in both lower corners and the upper right corner, while the national emblem of the People's Republic of China is positioned at upper left. The bank name in Chinese characters runs along the top, with the value in Chinese characters below. |
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| Reverse description | A panoramic vignette of Wu Gorge on the Yangtze River fills the central field, rendered in fine multicolour intaglio with steep forested cliffs flanking the river. The bank name and denomination are inscribed in four minority scripts — Mongolian, Tibetan, Uyghur, and Zhuang — arranged across the note, alongside the date '1980' and the romanised denomination 'WU YUAN'. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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