Bust of Sun Yat-sen left. The 38th year of the Republic and the state name (Republic of China) above.

Following the Chinese imperial tradition of using the sovereign's era name and year of reign, official Republic of China documents use the Republic system of numbering years in which the first year was 1912, the year of the founding of the Republic of China.

Map of the island with three characters (Taiwan Province) divides value on a field of 23 horizontal lines inside a circle.