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50 000 000 Dollars - Hell Bank Note
| Issuer | 冥通銀行 (Hell Bank) |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | 伍仟萬 冥通銀行 伍仟萬 No. 328928 No. 328928 伍仟萬 50000000 (Signature) (Signature) 伍仟萬 地府通用 伍仟萬 |
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| Reverse lettering | 50000000 HELL BANK NOTE 50000000 No. 328928 No. 328928 伍仟萬 50000000 DOLLARS 行長：玉皇 副行長：閻羅 50000000 地府通用鈔票 50000000 |
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Hell Bank Notes are joss paper — ritual offerings burned at funerals and ancestral ceremonies so that the deceased receive wealth in the afterlife. The practice blends older Chinese folk religion with the more recent visual language of modern currency. The "Hell Bank" branding, complete with invented chop marks and authorizing signatures, emerged in the twentieth century as a stylized mass-produced format that displaced the older plain gold and silver paper squares in many urban communities.
Not legal tender anywhere, never intended to be. The astronomical face values are deliberate — inflation in the afterlife being apparently a serious concern.