¥5 — Five Yuan
The artwork
Front: Mao Zedong, in a plain tunic, taken from the standard late portrait used across the whole fifth series and captioned 毛泽东 1893–1976. The national emblem sits top left, the bank's name 中国人民银行 runs across the head of the note, and the value appears twice — as a large figure 5 and in Chinese characters, 伍圓, above a spray of narcissus. Serial PF35284547. Embossed dots for the blind at lower right.
Back: A steep, wooded gorge in violet intaglio with the sun breaking over the ridge behind: Mount Tai in Shandong, the eastern peak of China's five sacred mountains, with the rock-cut inscription 五岳独尊 — "most honoured of the five peaks" — legible on the cliff at left. The issuer's name is repeated in pinyin and in Mongolian, Tibetan, Uyghur and Zhuang script panels, with the date 1999年 below.
In circulation
The 1999-dated five was released in late 2002, well after the hundred that opened the fifth series. A near-identical 2005-dated revision followed and took over general circulation, and a fully redesigned five, in silver-grey polymer-coated paper, appeared in November 2020. Notes of this design remain legal tender.
Details
- Issuer中国人民银行 — Zhongguo Renmin Yinhang (People's Bank of China)
- CurrencyYuan (¥)
- DenominationFive Yuan
- Collectedon the China journeys, 2005–2006
- SeriesFifth series, dated 1999
- SecurityRaised intaglio printing; embossed dot cluster at lower right for the visually impaired
- Dimensions135 × 63 mm