50 000 000 - Hell Bank Note

Hell Bank Notes are votive currency burned during Chinese funerary and ancestral rituals, intended to transfer wealth to the deceased in the afterlife. They are not, and never were, legal tender in any jurisdiction. The "Hell Bank Corporation" imprint is a commercial convention, not a chartered institution — the name is a Western-influenced rendering of a concept with roots in the Tang Dynasty practice of burning paper effigies as grave goods.

Hong Kong became the dominant manufacturing center for this material through the twentieth century, exporting globally to diaspora communities. Collector interest is real but modest; these circulate freely at low cost and hold no scarcity value in standard grades.