Chinese ghost paper money?.

Discussion in 'World Coins' started by anchor1112, Oct 6, 2005.

  1. anchor1112

    anchor1112 Senior Member

    have you seen one?. it came with many denominations. the chinese used to burn those paper money for the death.
     
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  3. Tbirde

    Tbirde Senior Member

  4. kvasir

    kvasir Show me the Money**

    Sure I have. They are burnt along with paper marché house, car, human effigy etc. for the dead.

    If you ask me, it's kinda like collecting Monopoly money, numismatically speaking. It's easy to find them in one of those general stores in Chinatown. Whether you are superstitious or not, these notes should not be treated as a toy.

    Chinese have been burning "money" for the dead even before these notes were created. People burn stacks of special white paper (simbolising older kind of paper money) or ingots folded from gold/silver foiled paper to the dead.
     
  5. annie21

    annie21 Senior Member

    ghost or hell money

    i think they are the same. right?.
     
  6. annie21

    annie21 Senior Member

    ghost money

    chinese used to burn a lot of ghost or hell paper money for their death ancestor to get it in heaven. i hope all those paper money is not a fake one.
     
  7. kvasir

    kvasir Show me the Money**

    It's hard to have "fake" unofficial money that is unredeemable in any place in THIS world. As I said, they are just like monopoly money, anyone can make them and they are available right off store shelves.
     
  8. anchor1112

    anchor1112 Senior Member

    hell money

    now you can purchase bundles of ghost money from chinese supermarket. denomination reached a high of 10,000.00 dollar.
     
  9. annie21

    annie21 Senior Member

    ghost money

    i got them from supermart too.
     
  10. vision

    vision Senior Member

    please to not "collect" these kinds of items. if you do please keep it to yourself and never "show off" them in public especially to chinese people. you will offend them very much.
     
  11. Conder101

    Conder101 Numismatist

    You can also get Hell credit cards
     
  12. annie21

    annie21 Senior Member

    ghost card

    it sound great.
     
  13. anchor1112

    anchor1112 Senior Member

    ghost

    i am afraid of ghost. burn it.
     
  14. annie21

    annie21 Senior Member

    hell money

    we used hell notes as money while playing cards. that's 20 years ago.
     
  15. Aidan Work

    Aidan Work New Member

    This belongs in the paper money section.Could it please be shifted?

    Aidan.
     
  16. anchor1112

    anchor1112 Senior Member

    ghost money

    chinese ghost money is not really a paper money.
     
  17. kvasir

    kvasir Show me the Money**

    Ai ya! Choi! Dai gaat lai si!
    (God forbids... Knock on wood!)
     
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