Top Document: Paper Money Collecting FAQ Previous Document: 2.10) I found a note marked "SPECIMEN" with a serial number of all zeros, what is it? Next Document: 2.12) What is a watermark? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge When I first started collecting paper money, I had a Chinese note which I couldn't identify, so I asked a colleague who was from Taiwan. Figuring "Hell" was probably some obscure province in China I asked him where the note came from. After he stopped laughing, he explained to me that a Buddhist tradition is to create paper money which is supposedly legal tender in the Hell afterlife. This paper is then burned so that dead ancestors who might have ended up in Hell would have something to spend. Some people even create paper cars, houses, etc. and burn them so their ancestors can have basic luxuries. Noting that the denomination on the note was one million, my colleague figured there must be severe inflation in Hell. How much are these notes worth? Face value. :-) Some people collect various forms of hell money. User Contributions:Top Document: Paper Money Collecting FAQ Previous Document: 2.10) I found a note marked "SPECIMEN" with a serial number of all zeros, what is it? Next Document: 2.12) What is a watermark? Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: Bruce Giese <giesewpm@tiac.net>
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