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8 Carps - 8 Wapaha China and Bulgaria
| Issuer | People's Republic of China |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Size | 157 x 60 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 鲤鱼跳龙门 EIGHT CARPS Bulgaria 2012年壬辰年 ОСЕМ ШАРАНА CARPS ШАРАНА 8 8 |
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| Reverse lettering | Jump so high that it turned into a dragon; where there's a will, there's a way. Малката рибка скочила толкова високо, че се превърнала дракон; когато волята е силна, няма нищо невъзможно. 鯉躍龍門有志者事競成 |
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Not a banknote in any conventional sense. This is a Chinese commemorative "souvenir note" — a category of decorative currency-adjacent items produced primarily for the gift and tourist market, carrying no legal tender status and issued outside the People's Bank of China's standard series. The "8 Carps" motif draws on longstanding Chinese symbolic tradition associating carp with prosperity and good fortune, while the Bulgaria reference suggests this particular variant was produced for bilateral trade or cultural exchange purposes.
Treat it as ephemera, not currency.