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500 Yuan
| Issuer | Central Reserve Bank of China |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Portrait vignette of Wang Jingwei set within an oval frame of acanthus scrollwork at left, printed in brown on a light guilloche underprint. The bank title 中央儲備銀行 appears at upper centre, with the denomination 伍百圓 displayed in a scalloped rosette at right. Two red seal chops are applied to the lower centre, and the branch designation 廣東 appears beneath the portrait and the denomination panel. |
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| Obverse lettering | 行銀備儲央中 伍百圓 中華民國幣國國民華中幣伍百圓 中華民國三十一年印 廣東 (Translation: The Central Reserve Bank of China, Five Hundred Yuan, Chinese National Currency Five Hundred Yuan, Printed in the 31st Year of the Republic of China, Guangdong) |
| Reverse description | The upper register carries the bank title in an ornate rectangular cartouche reading THE CENTRAL RESERVE BANK OF CHINA. At left, a large guilloche rosette frames the numeral 500, while to the right an intaglio vignette presents a panoramic view of the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Nanjing, with its grand ceremonial stairway and pavilion set against a landscaped hillside. A banner below reads FIVE HUNDRED YUAN, flanked by the date 1942 in a scalloped tablet, with facsimile signatures of the Vice-Governor and Governor printed below the central vignette. |
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