10 New Taiwan Dollars Banknote (1960 Issue Blue)

10 Yuan Dollar (Issued 1911)

Few banknotes in the New Taiwan Dollar series carry the political and historical weight of this 10 Yuan note, which places the founding father of the Republic of China at its very centre whilst simultaneously documenting Taiwan’s modernising infrastructure through its architectural vignette. A currency expert examining this note would immediately recognise the confident intaglio engraving work, the structured guilloché border design, and the bilingual typographic layout that reflects the institutional gravitas of the Bank of Taiwan. The serial number K 203743H, printed in red, provides an immediate point of reference for authentication and catalogue research. Withdrawn from circulation, the note represents a tangible document of mid-twentieth-century Taiwanese monetary design philosophy.

On the front, the dominant feature is a finely engraved portrait of Sun Yat-sen, the revolutionary leader and founding father of the Republic of China, rendered in a detailed intaglio style and positioned to the left of centre within an oval frame. The portrait captures Sun Yat-sen in a formal pose, facing three-quarters to the viewer’s left, wearing a high-collared jacket, with fine line engraving giving depth and shadow to his facial features. The central denomination panel is framed by an elaborate guilloché rosette pattern in shades of pink and red, with the Chinese characters 拾圓 — meaning ten yuan — prominently displayed within it. To the right of centre, a detailed vignette depicts a long steel truss railway or road bridge spanning a wide river, rendered with considerable architectural precision in blue tones. The issuing authority name, 臺灣銀行 (Bank of Taiwan), is printed in bold Chinese characters across the top centre of the note, flanked on both sides by the serial number K 203743H in red. The denomination character 拾 appears vertically in the left and right margins in blue. Two red seal impressions are visible in the lower centre area of the note, typical of Chinese-language official documents and banknotes of this period. The overall ground colour is a pale cream with a blue and pink geometric border, composed of repeating angular and interlocking pattern elements that frame the entire face of the note. A line of smaller Chinese text appears along the lower edge, likely denoting the printer or issuing authority detail. The date inscription 中華民國四十九年 is visible in the lower central area, indicating the Republic of China calendar year corresponding to the note’s issue.

The reverse is executed entirely in deep blue ink on a cream-coloured paper stock and is dominated by a wide, highly detailed intaglio engraving of a grand neoclassical building, identifiable as the Office of the President of the Republic of China in Taipei, formerly the Governor-General’s Office during the Japanese colonial period. The building is depicted with a tall central clock tower rising above a symmetrical colonnaded facade, with expansive grounds and open plaza space in the foreground, and trees flanking the structure on both sides. The engraving achieves considerable architectural depth, with fine line work capturing the decorative detailing of the building’s upper storeys, arched windows, and roofline ornamentation. The numeral 10 appears in each of the four corners of the reverse, set within ornate oval cartouches surrounded by dense scrollwork and foliate guilloché patterns. The border of the reverse consists of elaborate symmetrical floral and scroll designs that run continuously along all four edges, creating a rich decorative frame around the central architectural vignette. The lower centre of the reverse features an additional guilloché ornamental device. The overall composition conveys institutional authority and civic permanence through its restrained but densely worked monochromatic design.

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