5 Yuan, People's Bank of China, 1980

This copy

Accession

OM-00172

Serial

GZ 53780555

Series year

1980

Actually issued

1980

Signatures

This issue carries no bank manager or cashier signature.

Grade

F (IBNS)

Moderate 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

$2 indicative

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

Dimensions

151.3 × 71.5 mm (±0.5, from the scan)

Themes

ModernChinaEthnic portraits

The type

Type

5 Yuan, People's Bank of China, 1980

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 5 Yuan, People's Bank of China, 1980 in the collection.