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1 000 000 Hell Bank Note
| Issuer | Hell Bank Corporation (冥都銀行) |
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| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Dragon vignette at left; portrait of a robed male dignitary with ceremonial headdress at right. Large Chinese denomination characters at center with issuer name across top. Printed in red on pale paper with simple border ornaments at corners. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of a traditional Chinese pavilion with stairway, flanked by trees. Denomination panels at left and right. Decorative guilloche border at base; title legend in bold lettering across the top. Printed in blue. |
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Hell Bank Notes are votive offerings burned at funerals and ancestral rituals in Chinese folk religious practice, intended to transfer wealth to the deceased in the afterlife. The "Hell Bank Corporation" imprint is a 20th-century commercial convention — earlier offerings used simpler spirit money without elaborate banknote formatting. The adoption of realistic-looking currency design accelerated significantly after the mid-20th century, when Hong Kong manufacturers began mass-producing these for export to diaspora communities worldwide.
Not legal tender in any jurisdiction. Collectible primarily as ethnographic material.