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10 000 Dollars Hell Bank Note
| Issuer | Hell Bank Corporation |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Light green and brown with dark ornamental borders; vignette of a Gouldian finch at right facing left; faint underprint of the Jade Emperor at centre facing left; denomination numerals in upper left and lower right corners; Chinese script inscriptions across top and bottom edges and at right; signatures of Yen Loo and Yu Wong at lower left. |
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| Reverse description | Light green on white; denomination numerals at upper right and lower left; Chinese script inscriptions across top and bottom; vignette of a pheasant standing at left facing right; blank circle at centre; pheasant recumbent at right facing left with head turned backward. |
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Hell Bank Notes are ceremonial paper offerings burned in Chinese folk religious practice, intended to provide the deceased with currency in the afterlife. The "Hell Bank Corporation" imprint and the named signatories — Yen Loo (a romanization of Yanluo, the ruler of the underworld) and Yu Wong (the Jade Emperor) — are a deliberate, long-established convention of the genre, not an issuing authority in any conventional sense.
These are collected primarily as examples of folk material culture. No central print standard governs them; production runs vary widely by manufacturer, region, and decade.