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50 Yuan Year of the Monkey
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Reference(s) | KM# 2256 |
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| Obverse script | Chinese |
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| Reverse description | Central field depicts a monkey seated on a tree branch in a naturalistic composition, rendered in finely detailed relief with a large circular moon in the background. To the right, a second monkey face appears in close portrait, conveying a sense of familial warmth characteristic of traditional Chinese artistic themes associated with the lunar new year. The denomination 50元 appears in the upper left field, and the cyclical year inscription 丙申 is inscribed vertically in a rectangular cartouche at the lower right, identifying this as the Year of the Monkey in the Chinese sexagenary cycle. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50元 丙申 |
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