¥2 — Two Yuan
The artwork
Front: Two young women in profile, heads turned right, in the fourth series' engraved manner: a Bouyei woman in a patterned folded headcloth, and behind her a Korean (Chaoxian) woman with plain drawn-back hair and a collared jacket. The right two-thirds is given over to a deep green medallion of scrolls, leaves and lozenge borders framing 贰角 in bold white characters, with 中国人民银行 along the top and a large 2 in the corner. Serial in red at lower left.
Back: Pure ornament in green with a warm tan centre panel: the national emblem of the People's Republic — Tiananmen beneath five stars, ringed by ears of grain and a cogwheel — set in a lattice of geometric and floral tilework. "ZHONGGUO RENMIN YINHANG" runs across the top, the date 1980 sits in a cartouche below the emblem, numeral 2 to either side with "ERJIAO" at the right, and a bottom strip carries the denomination in Mongolian, Tibetan, Uyghur and Zhuang.
In circulation
Part of the fourth series renminbi, dated 1980 and released in the second half of the 1980s. The 2 jiao note stayed in tills through the 1990s before inflation and coinage pushed it aside; it ceased to be legal tender on 1 May 2018, when the fourth series was withdrawn apart from the 1 and 5 jiao.
Details
- Issuer中国人民银行 — Zhongguo Renmin Yinhang (People's Bank of China)
- CurrencyYuan (¥)
- DenominationTwo Yuan
- Collectedon the China journeys, 2005–2006
- SeriesFourth series renminbi, dated 1980; two-letter serial prefix (QM) and eight digits
- Dimensions120 × 55 mm