10 Yuan, People's Bank of China, 1965

This copy

Accession

OM-00171

Series year

1965

Actually issued

1965

Signatures

This issue carries no bank manager or cashier signature.

Grade

VG (IBNS)

Folds, edge tears, heavy wear. Estimated from the archival scan. Folds, soiling and edge condition are visible at this resolution; paper crispness, pinholes, small repairs and pressing are not.

Estimated value

$1.5 indicative

Category benchmark scaled for grade — an order of magnitude, not an appraisal. Priced 2026-09-07.

Dimensions

157 × 71.9 mm (±0.5, from the scan)

Themes

ModernChinaSocialist realism

The type

Type

10 Yuan, People's Bank of China, 1965

Printer

Not established

Rarity

common

Inscriptions

Obverse — the issuing bank

中国人民银行

People's Bank of China

Symbology

Ethnic portraits

The 1980 series pairs faces from different nationalities on each denomination - a multi-ethnic state depicting itself on its smallest notes.

What was happening

A circulating national banknote of the modern era: a central bank, a national portrait, and a currency backed by nothing but the institution that issues it — the arrangement every note earlier in this collection was either trying to establish or failing to maintain.

This account belongs to the type, not this copy — it is shared by every 10 Yuan, People's Bank of China, 1965 in the collection.