20 Yuan

Features

Issuer	People's Republic of China
Issuing bank	People's Bank of China (中國人民銀行/中国人民银行)
Period	People's Republic (1949-date)
Type	Standard circulation banknotes
Year	2005
Value	20 Yuan (20元, 贰拾圆) 20 CNY = USD 2.95
Currency	Rénmínbì (1955-date)
Composition	Paper
Size	145 × 70 mm
Shape	Rectangular
Issued	31 August 2005
Number	N# 204347
References	P# 905 Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).

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Series: 毛爷爷

Obverse

Portrait of Mao Zedong
Lotus flower
Coat of arms

Lettering:
中国人民银行
20
贰拾圆
毛泽东 1893-1976

Translation:
People's Bank of China
20
Twenty Yuan
Mao Zedong 1893-1976

Reverse

Scenery of Guilin
"ZHONGGUO RENMIN YINHANG" printed in top right corner and “People’s Bank of China” and the denomination printed in traditional Mongolian and Tibetan scripts, Uyghur, and Zhuang along with a vertical "20"
Arabic denomination (20) in top left corner and 20 in bottom left corner. The date and 年 are on the bottom to the right of center.
Microprinting along the bottom between "20" and the year repeats "20RMB20RMB" on the top 3 lines and "人民币人民币" on the bottom line.

Scripts: Chinese (simplified), Latin, Mongolian / Manchu, Tibetan, Old Uyghur

Lettering:
ZHONGGUO RENMIN YINHANG
ᠳᠤᠮᠳᠠᠳᠤ ᠤᠯᠤᠰ ᠤᠨ ᠠᠷᠠᠳ ᠤᠨ ᠪᠠᠩᠬᠢ ༅༅། །ཀྲུང་གོམི་མི་རྣམས་དངུལ་ཁང་། སྒོར་ཉི་ཤུ།
جۇڭگو خەلق بانكىسىيىگىرمە يۈەن Cunghgoz Yinzminz Yinzhangz ngeih cib maenz
20 YUAN
2005年

Translation:
People's Bank of China
People's Bank of China Twenty Yuan
Year 2005

Watermark

Lotus Flower

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Part of the 5th series of Renminbi notes issued by the People's Bank of China (中国人民銀行; Zhōngguó Rénmín Yínháng), the 2nd edition of 20 Yuan notes entered general circulation on August 31, 2005

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Date				G	VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC	References
Undetermined
2005				$ 2.50	$ 2.50	$ 2.90	$ 3.00	$ 3.40	$ 3.40	$ 4.60	P# 905 Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).	Serial prefix: XX## (letter-letter-number-number)

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Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	Katz Auction 107 Lot 332	10 Jan 2024	UNC	Unsold
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	Katz Auction 104 Lot 319	19 Dec 2023		USD 45.26 (EUR 39.00) (+ buyer's premium)
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