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5000 Yuan Central Bank of China
| Issuer | Central Bank of China |
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| Year | 1947 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Sun Yat-sen at left, set against an orange, green and blue multicolour design with a dark lilac guilloche on gold underprint. Coin vignettes are arranged to the right, flanking and behind the denomination numeral. Red serial numbers and bank seals appear on the face. |
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| Obverse lettering | 行銀央中 圓仟伍 印年六十三國民華中 (Translation: Central Bank of China Five Thousand Yuan Printed in the 36th year of the Republic) |
| Reverse description | Central vignette presents an elevated perspective of the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Nanjing, with its monumental stairway and ceremonial gateway set against a hillside backdrop, rendered in dark lilac intaglio. Large Chinese characters reading 伍仟圓 are set within ornate guilloche cartouches on both the left and right flanks, and the numeral 5000 appears in a panel at the bottom centre. Signature titles with manuscript signatures of the Director and Deputy Director of the printing bureau are inscribed to either side of the central vignette. |
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