Catalog
50 Yuan - Teller Practice Banknote 中国人民银行
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 2020 |
| Type | Fantasy banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 中国人民银行 練功券 50 (Translation: People's Bank of China Practice Banknote 50) |
| Reverse description | The reverse, printed in the same teal-green monochrome scheme, presents a central vignette of a traditional Chinese pavilion set beside water and surrounded by trees, executed in fine intaglio-style line work. The romanised bank name ZHONGGUO RENMIN YINHANG is lettered across the upper portion, with the denomination numeral '50' set within an oval guilloche cartouche at upper right and a scalloped rosette at lower right. A rectangular panel at lower left carries the characters 練功專用 within a guilloche frame, and a horizontal bar at the bottom displays the numeral '50' at left and the year '2020' at centre. |
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Teller training notes issued by the People's Bank of China are produced to full technical specification — same paper stock, same security thread placement, same printing registration as circulating notes — but are overprinted or marked to prevent legal tender use. The 2020 training series was distributed to banking institutions for staff to practice counting, authentication checks, and cash-handling procedures without exposing genuine currency to accelerated wear.
These are not proofs, not specimens, and not propaganda issues. They occupy an odd category that most Western catalogues ignore entirely, which understates their documentary value to anyone studying PBoC production standards.