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100 000 000 Hell Bank Note
| Issuer | Bank of Hades (冥都銀行) |
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| Size | 170 x 91.5 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 冥都銀行 壹億圓 100000000 通用冥幣 (Translation: Bank of Hell 100000000 Yuan Good for use in Hell) |
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| Reverse lettering | 南無阿彌陀佛 HELL BANK NOTE (Translation: Namo amitābhāya buddhāya) |
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Hell bank notes are a form of joss paper — ritual paper offerings burned at funerals and ancestral ceremonies in Chinese Buddhist and Taoist traditions, so that the deceased may have spending money in the afterlife. The "Bank of Hades" imprint carries no relation to any regulated financial institution. These notes are manufactured in bulk, primarily in Hong Kong and mainland China, and sold in temple shops and funeral supply stores rather than through any banking channel.
The hundred-million denomination is entirely conventional in this category — inflation in the afterlife, apparently, has kept pace with the earthly kind. Collectible mainly as a curiosity or cultural artifact.