¥5 — Five Yuan
The artwork
Front: Two young women in right profile, drawn from the Miao and Zhuang nationalities — the nearer one heavy with silver headdress, tassels and a spiral ear ornament, the other in a wrapped embroidered head-cloth. The issuer's name, 中国人民银行, runs along the top; the denomination 伍角 sits in a medallion of dense scrollwork at right, with figure 5 in each lower corner and a red serial, prefix PX, across the base.
Back: The national emblem of the People's Republic — five stars above Tiananmen, framed by ears of grain and a cogwheel — centred in a lace-like guilloche of blue, violet and rose, with the date 1980 below it. Pinyin "ZHONGGUO RENMIN YINHANG" heads the note, "WU JIAO" and the figure 5 balance left and right, and the foot carries Mongolian, Tibetan, Uyghur and Zhuang text.
In circulation
This 5 jiao of the fourth renminbi series, dated 1980, went into circulation in 1987 and stayed there far longer than its stablemates. When the People's Bank withdrew the fourth series on 1 May 2018 the 1 jiao and 5 jiao notes were exempted, though coins had long since taken over daily use.
Details
- Issuer中国人民银行 — People's Bank of China
- CurrencyYuan (¥)
- DenominationFive Yuan
- Collectedon the China journeys, 2005–2006
- SeriesFourth series renminbi, dated 1980
- SignatureNone; two square seals in Chinese seal script on the back
- SecurityMinority-language panels in Mongolian, Tibetan, Uyghur and Zhuang; two-letter red serial