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| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Currency | Rénmínbì (1955-date) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of Mao Zedong facing right, rendered in fine intaglio. The national coat of arms appears in the upper left, with guilloché underprint patterns in olive-green tones across the field. Denomination numerals and issuing bank title are printed in both Chinese characters and Arabic numerals. |
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| Reverse lettering | ZHONGGUO RENMIN YINHANG ᠤᠮᠳᠠᠳᠤ ᠤᠯᠤᠰ ᠤᠨ ᠠᠷᠠᠳ ᠤᠨ ᠪᠠᠩᠬᠢ ༅༅། །ཀྲུང་གོམི་མི་རྣམས་དངུལ་ཁང་། སྒོར་ལྔ། جۇڭگو خەلق بانكىسى بەش يۈەن Cunghgoz Yinzminz Yinzhangz haj maenz 5 YUAN 2005年 (Translation: People's Bank of China, Five Yuan) |
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The 2005 fifth series 5 Yuan was introduced as a replacement for the polymer 5 Yuan note of 2002 — China's brief experiment with polymer substrate had proven unpopular in production terms, and the decision to revert to paper for this denomination was quietly made without public announcement. The watermark security on this issue is relatively minimal compared to higher denominations in the same series, a deliberate cost-calibration for a note expected to endure heavy everyday circulation.