第五套人民币继承了中国印制技术的传统经验，借鉴了国外钞票设计的先进技术，在防伪性能和适应货币处理现代化方面有了较大提高。各面额货币正面均采用毛泽东主席建国初期的头像，底衬采用了中国著名花卉图案，背面主景图案通过选用有代表性的寓有民族特色的图案，充分表现了中国悠久的历史和壮丽的山河，弘扬了中国伟大的民族文化。
Fifth sets of RMB have inherited the traditional experience of China's printing technology, and drew on the advanced technology of foreign banknote design. It has greatly improved the anti-counterfeiting performance and the adaptation to the modernization of money processing. On the front of all denominations, President Mao Zedong's head portrait is adopted in the early days of the founding of the people's Republic of China. The bottom lining adopts the famous Chinese flower pattern. The back of the landscape pattern is represented by the representative pattern of national characteristics, which fully displays the long history and magnificent mountains and rivers in China, and carries forward the great national culture of China.
在原材料工艺方面做了改进，提高了纸张的综合质量和防伪性。固定水印立体感强、形象逼真。磁性微文字、安全线、彩色纤维、无色荧光纤维等在纸张中有机运用，并且采用了电脑辅助设计手工雕刻、电子雕刻和晒版腐蚀相结合的综合制版技术。特别是在二线和三线防伪方面采用了国际通用的防伪措施，为专业人员和研究人员鉴别真伪，提供了条件。与第四套人民币相比，第五套人民币的防伪技能由十几种增加到二十多种，主景人像、水印、面额数字均较以前放大，便于群众识别。
The improvement of raw material technology has improved the comprehensive quality and anti-counterfeiting of paper. The fixed watermark is strong and vivid. The magnetic microtext, the safety line, the color fiber, the colorless fluorescent fiber and so on are used organically in the paper, and the computer aided design of manual engraving, electronic engraving and sun plate corrosion is used. In particular, the international common anti-counterfeiting measures are adopted in the second and three line anti-counterfeiting measures, which provides conditions for professionals and researchers to distinguish authenticity from falsification. Compared with fourth sets of RMB, the anti counterfeiting skills of fifth sets of RMB have increased from more than ten to more than 20, and the portrait, watermark and denomination of the landscape are larger than before, so it is convenient for the masses to identify.
错版币的收藏价值主要体现在两个方面：一个方面是它的出现几率是非常小的，基本都是千万分之一或亿万分之一的错误几率，所以，他的存世量是非常少的；而另一方面人民币作为我国唯一流通货币，均由中国人民银行印制发行，具有无可替代的权威性、价值性，是代表我们中国的标志。错版币的出现，引起了大量藏家们的注意，因为它稀少，不可代替，升值空间大。
The collection value of the wrong edition is mainly embodied in two aspects: one is that the probability of its appearance is very small, and the probability of one or millions of tens of millions is basically the wrong probability. Therefore, his existence is very small; on the other hand, the RMB as the only currency in China is printed by the people's Bank of China. The issuance of the system has irreplaceable authority and value and represents the symbol of China. The appearance of the wrong edition coins has attracted the attention of a large number of collectors, because it is scarce and cannot be replaced.