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100 Dollars - Hell Bank Note
| Issuer | Hell Bank Corporation |
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| Size | 157 x 76 mm |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour note with a vignette of the Jade Emperor in imperial robes and crown at right, a smaller ghost-like portrait at left within a vertical inscription panel, and a central guilloche medallion bearing the numeral 100 over an ornate underprint. The denomination ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS is lettered below the central vignette. |
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| Reverse description | Monochrome green design centred on a circular vignette of cranes among pine trees, flanked on each side by a tortoise motif. Denomination numerals 100 appear at lower left and lower right, with Chinese legends in the upper and lower borders and the italic inscription Hell Bank Note at upper right. |
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Hell Bank Notes are ritual joss paper burned as offerings in Chinese, Vietnamese, and broader East Asian funerary traditions, intended to provide the deceased with currency in the afterlife. The "Hell Bank Corporation" imprint is a fixture of the genre — a deliberate parody of institutional banking that dates the modern format to roughly the mid-20th century, when the older plain joss paper began giving way to elaborately printed denominations mimicking real banknotes.
Not a financial instrument by any definition, and outside the scope of conventional numismatic cataloging. Collected primarily as cultural ephemera.