Primary Collection: China
China pick 51d: 1 Dollar from 1918
Sept. 1918. Color varieties. Temple of Heaven at center. Signature and serial number varieties. Printer: ABNC. With various Chinese character or western numeral or letter control overprints. CHEKIANG. Orange on multicolor underprint. Back dark green. (S/M number C294-100q).
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China pick 877a: 1 Jiao from 1962
1962. Brown on multicolored underprint. Workers at left. Arms at right on back. Back brown on green and light orange underprint. Without watermark.
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China pick 881a: 1 Jiao from 1980
1980. Brown and dark brown on multicolored underprint. Two Taiwanese men at left. Arms at center on back. Serial number prefix two letters.
China pick 882a: 2 Jiao from 1980
1980. Grayish olive-green on multicolored underprint. Native Pu Yi and Korean youth at left. Arms at center on back.
China pick 884g: 1 Yuan from 1996
1996. Brown-violet on multicolored underprint. Dong and Yao youths at right. Great Wall at center on back. Black serial number. Lithographed. Watermark: stars. Arms at upper left, stylized birds in underprint at center, dot patterns for poor of sight at lower left or right on face.
China pick 886a: 5 Yuan from 1980
1980. Dark brown on multicolored underprint. Old Tibetan man and young Islamic woman at right. Yangtze Gorges on back. Watermark: ancient Pu (pants) coin repeated. Arms at upper left, stylized birds in underprint at center, dot patterns for poor of sight at lower left or right on face.
China pick 891: 50 Yuan from 1999
1999. 50th Anniversary of the Revolution. Red on multicolored underprint. Mao Tse-tung delivering a speech. Five pigeons in flight, carvings to left and right on back.