Canadian Specimen Banknotes Printed In China!

They are selling various color photocopies of othe notes including US currency. They say that the notes had worked in some vending machines which I find hard to believe for such bad copies. Anyhow I really doubt these copied notes were used for practice and training.

Some sellers are willing to sell anything in China to make a buck.

The seller writes:
The Bank of China (Chinese Central Bank) was authorized by the United States Treasury Department to print a few thousand practice notes so that tellers and currency exchangers in China could easily recognize US money. However, the intial round of bills produced still had the words "THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE". To make matters worse, the bills were being accepted by some vending machines at tender value. The US Treasury Department requested that version 1.0 of the notes be destroyed, and replaced by version 2.0 (legal tender struck out, lower resolution, smaller size, and features not recognized by machines). US $20.00.

The story is highly likely unreal. It is ridiculious to think that the Bank of China would be making copies like this with out having proper consultations and input from the BEP, U.S. Treasury, and from the Bank of Canada.