Paper money

Museum number:
9-18713
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090018713
Accession number:
Acc.4479
Description:
paper money, Chinese; one hundred sheets of $5,000 bills with the inscription of “Hell Bank Note” on both sides; greyish design on white ground; funerary paper money for the dead. Stack enclosed in plastic.
Donor:
University Appropriation and Wei Hua Zhang
Collection place:
China
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Paper money
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Paper money, accession number 9-18713, described as paper money, Chinese; one hundred sheets of $5,000 bills with the inscription of “Hell Bank Note” on both sides; greyish design on white ground; funerary paper money for the dead. Stack enclosed in plastic.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Paper money, accession number 9-18713, described as paper money, Chinese; one hundred sheets of $5,000 bills with the inscription of “Hell Bank Note” on both sides; greyish design on white ground; funerary paper money for the dead. Stack enclosed in plastic.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Paper money, accession number 9-18713, described as paper money, Chinese; one hundred sheets of $5,000 bills with the inscription of “Hell Bank Note” on both sides; greyish design on white ground; funerary paper money for the dead. Stack enclosed in plastic.

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