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5 Yuan - Teller Practice Banknote Bank of China
| Issuer | Bank of China |
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| Type | Fantasy banknote |
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| Obverse description | Cream-toned note printed in dark brown and green. Upper left bears the circular Bank of China logo alongside the Chinese legend 中国银行 and English inscription BANK OF CHINA. A large green guilloche rosette at centre carries the overprinted characters 练功券. To the right, an intaglio-style aerial vignette renders a riverside industrial complex, with the numeral 5 in ornate cartouches at right and lower corners. A decorative panel across the base bears the supervisory legend 中国银行工会监制. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in dark brownish-red on white stock. A central vignette renders the Great Wall of China winding across mountainous terrain with a watchtower at centre, executed in fine intaglio line work. The romanised legend ZHONGGUO YINHANG runs along the top margin. Numerals 5 appear in floral cartouches at upper left and upper right, with the characters 练功 at lower left and 专用 at lower right. A segmented ornamental panel with repeated floral guilloche motifs and two value tablets runs along the base. |
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Teller training notes from the Bank of China occupy an oddly specific collecting niche. These pieces were produced for internal bank use — issued to branch staff learning to handle, authenticate, and process currency — and were never intended to leave the building. Survival depends almost entirely on whether individual branches bothered to destroy their stocks after the relevant series was retired from circulation, which many did not do systematically.
Overprinting or perforation marking practice notes varies by institution and period; some Bank of China training issues carry no cancellation at all, making provenance the only reliable indicator of their purpose.