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1 000 000 Hell Bank Note Johnson
| Issuer | Hell Bank (冥通銀行) |
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| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse lettering | 行銀通冥 壹佰萬 E64865 約翰生 Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Reverse description | Right-side vignette of a multi-tiered Chinese pagoda with ornate balustrades and staircases, rendered in fine line engraving. A large lobed guilloche rosette to the left bears the numeral denomination. The note is printed in blue-violet on cream paper with a lace-pattern border frame. |
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Hell Bank Notes are votive offerings burned in Chinese funerary rites so that the deceased may have spending money in the afterlife — a practice rooted in Tang Dynasty paper-burning traditions adapted over centuries into the mass-produced novelty items sold today at temple shops and funeral supply stores. The issuing authority printed on these notes, 冥通銀行 (roughly "Underworld Communication Bank"), is a modern commercial invention with no historical institutional continuity.
The "Johnson" designation in the catalog name reflects a common Western trade labeling, not any official series designation.