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Source: https://www.sinobanknote.net/ and http://www.banknote.ws/

Schwartz (2014) remarks "We have here a portrait, not of a leader or a historical or legendary figure, but of two characteristic citizens—a worker and peasant idealized in their pose, albeit with individual physiognomies. In China, numismatic portraits of any sort are a recent innovation....realistic portraits of any sort are rare before the appearance of Sun Yat-sen’s portrait on Republican banknotes in 1923.⁵ Otherwise, landscapes, government buildings, and monuments are the usual images sharing pictorial fields on money cluttered with the ramified ornamentation and lettering of nineteenth-century steel engraving styles."
and he continues "Yet its demotic subject matter participates in a program depicting symmetry in agricultural and industrial production that governs the entire series and is carried through on other notes with landscapes that include factories and shepherds, weavers and irrigation procedures, trains and bridges, electrification projects, railway stations, and harrowing, threshing and fertilization scenes. On the formal side, most of these landscapes share with the worker-and-peasant two-shot a characteristically Socialist Realist deployment of heroic foreshortening and utopian out-of-frame space:... "
In 1953, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications send the following message: "According to a report from the Henan Post and Telecommunications Administration, Comrade Ren Dongxu, Director of the Fourth Branch of the Zhengzhou Post and Telecommunications Bureau, observed someone bringing a revalued stamp to the bureau on May 12th to exchange for a small ticket. The revalued stamp was an olive green, Tiananmen Square stamp worth 2,000 yuan, with the words "Temporarily priced at 5,000 yuan" printed in red. The reprinting was illegible, and the spacing between the characters was uneven. Upon inquiring about the source of the stamp, the holder replied that they had purchased it in Beijing. Comrade Ren considered the matter suspicious and reported it to his superiors for investigation. He later inquired with the Beijing Bureau, who confirmed that the revalued stamp did not exist. The holder of the stamp had fled the scene. Second, the various stamps issued by this department with the Tiananmen design have not had their value altered by any additions. The aforementioned "Temporarily priced at 5,000 Yuan" stamp is indeed a counterfeit using a 2,000 Yuan stamp. All bureaus are urged to pay close attention, especially those involved in stamp sales, sorting, and ticketing. They must conduct thorough inspections at all times. If any stamps with altered Tiananmen design are discovered, the source must be investigated immediately so the counterfeiters can be apprehended."

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