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50 Yuan
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 1949 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette showing a steam locomotive travelling along railway tracks toward the viewer, with a fortified gatehouse or tower visible in the left background, rendered in fine intaglio engraving on a light underprint ground. Denomination panels reading 伍拾圓 appear in ornate frames to the left and right of the central vignette. Two red seal impressions flank the lower portion of the design, with the bank title 中國人民銀行 at top centre and the date inscription along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | 行銀民人國中 伍 拾 圓 年八十三國民華中 (Translation: People's Bank of China Fifty Yuan Year 38 of the Chinese Republic) |
| Reverse description | Intricate guilloche lacework in brown ink fills the entire field, arranged in three large interlocking rosette medallions. The numeral 50 appears in each of the two outer medallions, with the Chinese characters 伍拾圓 centred between them. The bank title 中國人民銀行 is inscribed in a rectangular cartouche at top centre, and the year 1949 is set within the lower border, with smaller numeral 50 repeated in each lower corner. |
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