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1 000 000 Hell Bank Note Eisenhower
| Issuer | Hell Bank (冥通銀行) |
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| Size | 120 x 63 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a bust portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower set within an oval guilloche surround, printed in red on a green underprint. Denomination panels reading 壹佰萬 appear in ornate lobed cartouches at left and right. The issuer name 冥通銀行 is inscribed in a scrolled banner at top centre, with the name "Eisenhower" in Latin script along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Vignette of a multi-tiered Chinese temple with sweeping tiled roofs and a broad staircase, occupying the right half of the note, printed in blue on cream paper. To the left, a floral guilloche rosette encloses the numeral 1000000. The inscription 地府通用鈔票 appears in a panel along the lower margin, with "HELL BANK NOTE" in bold Latin capitals at the top. |
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Hell Bank notes are Chinese-American funerary paper, burned as offerings so the deceased can spend the money in the afterlife. This particular piece — denominated at one million and bearing Eisenhower's image — belongs to a wave of novelty "hell money" that began appearing in overseas Chinese communities and American Chinatowns from roughly the 1960s onward, blending traditional joss paper customs with Western iconographic shorthand for wealth and prestige.
The "冥通銀行" imprint translates loosely as Bank of Hades. Not a financial institution in any sense — the name exists purely to signal ritual legitimacy.