Chinese Practice Money - Counting Coupons

I have seen these on eBay and they look too similar to US currency to be legal. Seller writes "This item is not real dollars, not counterfeit. This item is a financial staff dedicated Counting practice coupons. "


http://www.ebay.com/itm/20-bank-note-practice-dedicated-voucher-1000-points-/170895770302

It seems too easy to pass these off as real currency if one doesn't know Chinese. Especially because these notes are double sided and appear to be actual size. However, the printing quality looks to be poor.


According to this site:


http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v14n26a09.html

I showed that image of a Chinese “practice note” to one of my Chinese students. She translates the characters thus:
Training Money
SAMPLE
Only for Practice – Circulation Forbidden
Apparently (as my student tells me) the characters for “Training” are also those for “Kung Fu”, so perhaps “Kung Fu Money” is another plausible rendering.

Thoughts?

 

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The Chinese will soon be counterfeiting Us Money. I can guarantee it, If the US won't stop China from counterfeiting Coins, Gold, Silver, etc...then China is going to up the ante.

 

I have a couple French notes with the same overprint, though they only have the design on the face. The paper is not banknote paper, and the printing is pretty poor when you see them in hand. Don't know if the US ones are of the same quality, but if they are, it would take kind of a dumb**s to accept one.

Dave

 

I hope they dont feel real, I can't speak chinese so I wouldn't know what the heck that says.

 

When these first appeared, I notified both eBay and the US Secret Service office in Dallas.

Nobody gave a ****.

 

Try passing one at Walmart..... I'm sure you'll get a lot of people interested then.

 

Honestly if you stick one of those 20's into a stack of 4 or 5 genuine bills you'll probably be able to get away with it. As long as they fell like the real thing.

 

Would they be accepted by a bill acceptor or a change machine (e.g., at a car wash)?

 

They are smaller than a real bill even though it doesn't mention it and are poorly printed and feel like a piece of cheap computer paper. I bought some for my kids to play around with about all they are good for as a neat curiosity.

 

It's like those fake IDs that china makes and sells over the internet. They aren't technically illegal to own or sell, just to use.