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10 000 000 - Hell Bank Note
| Issuer | Bank of Hades (冥都銀行) |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | Monochrome green vignette of a traditional Chinese pagoda-style building inscribed with the bank name, set within a landscaped garden with trees and auspicious clouds. A crane in flight appears upper right. Corner rosette guilloche medallions frame the design, with denomination numerals at lower left and right. |
| Reverse lettering | 冥都銀行 壹仟萬 LA 23688 通用冥幣 Yen Looh Zhi Wang HELL BANK NOTE 10000000 |
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Hell bank notes are a form of joss paper — ritual money burned as offerings in Chinese folk religion and ancestor veneration, intended to reach the deceased in the afterlife. "Bank of Hades" and its Chinese variants are not financial institutions; the names are purely ceremonial fictions, and these items have never held legal tender status anywhere. The denomination is meaningless by design — underworld inflation being, presumably, unchecked.
Not a banknote. Not within the scope of a numismatic catalog.