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5 Yuan - Teller Practice Banknote
| Issuer | People's Republic of China |
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| Year | 2003 |
| Type | Fantasy banknote |
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| Obverse description | Cream-toned training piece with a fine wave-pattern guilloche underprint throughout. The upper field carries the Pinyin legend in brown letterpress, with large simplified Chinese characters below and a decorative cartouche at right bearing the Chinese formal numeral 伍圓 overlaid with a red practice seal. A lower border panel contains a stylised guilloche band flanked by dragon-head medallions, with the numeral 5 at left and year 2003 at right. |
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| Obverse lettering | 出纳点钞用纸 CHU NA DIAN CHAO YONG ZHI WU YUAN 伍圆 5 2003 |
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Chinese banks have long used dedicated practice notes — called 点钞券 (diǎn chāo quàn) — for training tellers in the rapid counting, sorting, and authentication techniques required before handling live currency. This 2003 example mimics the fifth series 5 Yuan note closely enough to build genuine muscle memory, but carries overprinting or other markings that render it legally distinct from circulating currency.
These training materials are officially produced and distributed through the banking system, not sold publicly — which makes surviving intact examples somewhat harder to source than their mundane purpose might suggest.