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Ten Thousand Dollars Heaven Bank Note
| Issuer | Heaven Bank |
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| Type | Fantasy banknote |
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| Reverse description | Uniface; reverse is blank, printed on plain white paper with faint ghost impression of the obverse visible through the thin joss paper substrate. |
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| Signature(s) | Yuk Won |
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Heaven Bank notes are ritual joss paper — printed for burning at funerals and ancestral ceremonies throughout the Chinese diaspora, so that the deceased receives wealth in the afterlife. They carry no legal tender status and were never issued by any financial institution. "Heaven Bank" is a folk convention, not a chartered body, and the "Governor" signature (here rendered as Yuk Won) varies freely between printers with no regulatory oversight.
Collectors acquire these as ephemera rather than currency, and condition is largely irrelevant — most were purchased in bulk stacks for ceremonial use, not handled as individual pieces.