500 New Taiwan Dollar Banknote

500 Yuan Dollar (Issued 1911)

The 500 Yuan New Taiwan Dollar note from the modern issue series adopts a clean, horizontal layout philosophy that balances large pictorial vignettes with restrained typographic elegance, reflecting the design conventions of late twentieth-century Asian banknote printing. Rather than centring its composition on a portrait in the classical European tradition, this note takes a distinctly modern approach by placing vivid figurative and natural imagery at its heart. The overall colour palette is soft and luminous, blending pale lavender, warm cream, and muted gold tones across both faces. The result is a note whose aesthetic sits firmly within the internationalist printing traditions of the latter half of the twentieth century, distinguished by fine guilloché backgrounds and precise intaglio rendering.

On the front, the central vignette depicts a joyful scene of young baseball players, rendered in warm sepia-brown intaglio engraving against a circular backdrop suggestive of a full moon or stadium lighting. The figures, dressed in baseball uniforms and catching gear, are shown mid-celebration with their arms raised and caps and gloves thrown into the air, capturing a moment of triumphant team spirit that reflects Taiwan’s deep cultural connection to baseball as a national sport. To the upper centre of the note, the issuing authority is printed in traditional Chinese characters reading 中華民國 (Republic of China) above 中央銀行 (Central Bank), both rendered in rich brown-gold typography against the pale background. The serial number BT795695VA appears twice — once in the upper left and once in the upper right — printed in dark ink in a standard serif typeface. The denomination numeral 500 appears prominently in the upper left corner and again in bold gold-toned figures at the lower left, while the Chinese character equivalent 伍佰 is inscribed vertically in gold to the lower right. The background field carries delicate guilloché patterns in pale lavender and violet, with geometric latticework framing the left and right margins. A floral rosette motif, consistent with traditional Taiwanese design vocabulary, appears at the left margin alongside small coloured security dots. The print credit 中央印製廠 (Central Engraving and Printing Plant) is noted in fine text at the lower centre.

The reverse presents a beautifully engraved naturalistic scene featuring a group of Formosan sika deer — a species native to Taiwan and of considerable ecological significance — rendered in precise, layered intaglio work. The herd comprises several adult deer and younger animals, grouped naturally against a rocky, mountainous landscape background, with soft blue-grey tones suggesting mist and depth in the hills behind. To the upper right of the reverse, stylised bamboo branches rendered in blue-green extend elegantly into the composition, adding a further element of Taiwanese natural heritage to the design. The denomination 500 appears in large numerals at the upper left in dark brown ink, and the Chinese character denomination 伍佰圓 is printed in gold at the lower right. A vertical security strip is visible along the right side of the note, and the repeated microprint of the denomination 500 runs in a faint band across the upper margin. The background guilloché pattern on the reverse is rendered in warm cream and pale lilac, providing a refined contrast to the detailed central engraving. Fine print text at the lower centre identifies the issuing republic and the edition year in the Republican calendar format 中華民國九十三年製版.

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