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QUERY: $50 CHINESE "PRACTICE NOTE"
At my request Jon Radel forwarded these images of a novelty note he showed me this week. Below is the text of its lot description (eBay lot 160572181256). Has anyone seen or heard of notes like these before?
-Editor
THEY ARE A COPY OF A U.S. $50 BILL.FEATURING GRANT ON THE OBVERSE. THE CAPITAL ON THE REVERSE. THEY ARE USED TO TEACH BANK TELLERS IN CHINA. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE U.S. CURRENCY. THEY ARE CALLED PRACTICE MONEY. THEIR SIZE IS SIMILAR TO THE REAL THING. JUST THE PRINT QUALITY IS NOT THAT OF THE REAL NOTES. I BELIEVE THEY PRINTED ON A PHOTO OFFSET PRESS. THE DO NOT APPEAR TO BE PHOTO COPIED. This is what the printer of this money says are its usage. Her exact quote " Hello dear friends: Quality of the item is very good, my husband is the senior management of the Bank of China to provide Canada, France, Japan, Hong Kong, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Australia, the United States, the euro and other countries of the different denominations and various banks in China." IF THIS IS TRUE OR NOT. I DO NOT KNOW. WHAT I DO KNOW IS THAT THEY MAKE AN INTERESTING NOVELTY NOTE. "COLLECTING RARE COINS FOR PLEASURE AND PROFIT"Wayne Homren, Editor The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is a non-profit organization promoting numismatic literature. See our web site at coinbooks.org. To submit items for publication in The E-Sylum, write to the Editor at this address: whomren@gmail.com To subscribe go to: https://my.binhost.com/lists/listinfo/esylum All Rights Reserved. NBS Home Page Contact the NBS webmaster 
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