1 Jiao, People's Bank of China, 1980

This copy

Accession

OM-00174

Serial

YF 79816917

Series year

1980

Actually issued

1980

Signatures

This issue carries no bank manager or cashier signature.

Grade

VF (IBNS)

Light circulation 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

$3 indicative

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

Dimensions

115.2 × 52.5 mm (±0.5, from the scan)

Themes

ModernChinaEthnic portraits

The type

Type

1 Jiao, 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 1 Jiao, People's Bank of China, 1980 in the collection.