50 000 000 Dollars - Hell Bank Note

Hell Bank Notes are ceremonial joss paper manufactured for ritual burning at funerals and ancestral offerings — the smoke is understood to transfer the currency to the deceased in the afterlife. The "Heaven and Earth Bank" imprint is a conventional fiction with no issuing authority behind it; the name appears across countless manufacturers' output and carries no institutional meaning.

The denominations printed on these notes inflated dramatically over the twentieth century, tracking a folk logic that the dead require ever-larger sums to navigate bureaucratic hierarchies in the afterlife. Fifty million is now a modest figure in the genre.