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10 Yuan - Hell Bank Note
| Issuer | Tiandi Banks Co., Ltd |
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| Year | 2007 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Vignette of a bearded imperial deity in ornate ceremonial robes and headdress at right, with a smaller matching portrait vignette at left; central underprint carries the numeral 10 within a guilloche rosette above the Chinese characters 拾圓 and a rose motif. Multicolour printing on a light blue ground with dense decorative border patterns. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 天地銀行有限公司 10 TIANDI Banks CO., Ltd 10 YUAN 天地通用紙幣 2007年 |
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Hell Bank Notes are liturgical objects manufactured for burning at funerals and ancestral rites in Chinese religious practice — the smoke is believed to transmit the notes to the deceased in the afterlife. They are not currency in any legal or historical sense, and Tiandi Banks Co., Ltd. is a commercial printer of ritual goods, not a financial institution.
This item falls outside the scope of a numismatic catalog. No auction record, Pick listing, or credentialed reference work treats hell money as collectible banknotes.