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2 Yuan - Teller Practice Banknote
| Issuer | People's Republic of China |
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| Type | Fantasy banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green on cream paper, the obverse carries the title inscription 点钞练功专用券 (teller cash-counting practice note) at top centre. To the left, a rosette vignette with a Yuan symbol underprint; to the right, numeral 2 within a guilloche circle. Centre vignette shows an arched stone bridge with a multi-storey building behind, framed by a guilloche band and rosette at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Green on cream, the reverse is enclosed within a guilloche border. A central vignette shows industrial dredging or construction machinery on a waterway. The inscription 练功专用 appears in large characters on both left and right margins. Two small seal cartouches flank the lower portion of the vignette. A dense guilloche wave band runs along the bottom, with numeral 2 at each lower corner. |
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Chinese banking institutions have long used purpose-printed training notes to teach counter staff authentication and handling procedures without circulating genuine currency. These pieces were never legal tender and carry explicit markings — typically overprinted or incorporated into the design — identifying them as练功券 (liàngōng quàn), literally "skill-practice券." They exist in a bureaucratic grey zone: officially worthless, yet produced with enough fidelity to real issues that they serve their training purpose.
Collector interest has grown steadily since the 1990s. Quantities printed were never publicly disclosed, and surviving examples vary considerably in condition depending on how hard a particular batch was actually used.