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100 - Hongwu 1328-1398AD
| Issuer | People's Republic of China |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette portrays the Hongwu Emperor (1328–1398), founder of the Ming Dynasty and the ruler who ended Mongol dominion over China. The portrait is rendered in a formal imperial style with surrounding decorative framework consistent with fantasy note production. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette presents the Forbidden City, the imperial palace complex constructed during the Ming Dynasty on the site of the former Mongol court. The architectural rendering is set within a decorative border in keeping with the fantasy note's overall design scheme. |
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This note commemorates Zhu Yuanzhang, the Hongwu Emperor, founder of the Ming Dynasty — a man born a landless peasant who buried his parents in borrowed ground during a famine before eventually overthrowing the Yuan and establishing the longest-ruling ethnic Han dynasty in Chinese history. The Ming court is also directly relevant to banknote history: Zhu Yuanzhang's government issued the Dà Míng Bǎochāo, one of the most ambitious paper currency experiments of the medieval world, which ultimately collapsed under uncontrolled overprinting and refusal of the state to accept its own notes in tax payment.