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| Uitgever | 冥都銀行 (Hell Bank) |
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| Jaar | |
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| Samenstelling | Paper |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Multicolour vignette centred on a robed deity figure (Jade Emperor) set against a solar halo, flanked by processions of celestial figures on clouds. Denomination numerals 100000000 appear in lower left and right corners within rosette underprints. Serial number TL 2532 printed twice at top centre; Latin legend HELL BANK NOTE in a cartouche at foot. |
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| Opschrift keerzijde | 冥都銀行 壹億圓 100000000 通用冥幣 HELL BANK NOTE TL 2532 Yan Look Yu Wang |
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| Opmerkingen |
Hell Bank Notes are votive offerings burned during Chinese and Chinese-diaspora funerary rites so that the deceased may have spending money in the afterlife — a tradition blending Buddhist and Taoist practice with older ancestor veneration. The issuing "bank" printed on these notes is purely fictitious, as is the denomination, which inflated aggressively over the decades as worshippers reasoned the afterlife probably has its own cost-of-living problem.
These are not currency in any legal or numismatic sense, but they circulate freely through temple shops, funeral parlors, and Chinatown grocers worldwide. Collectors occasionally include them in paper Americana or exonumia sections purely for the curiosity.