Training Notes!

A complete waste of money. They have no numismatic value of any kind.

I think I remember seeing on another thread or forum that they might be illegal in Australia because they would be considered counterfeit. I don't see a problem though, after all, those gold buyers in shopping centres often use oversized fake $50 notes as advertising.

Strictly speaking it may not have any numismatic interest but at just $15 they would make an interesting curiosity.

I'm not the seller, but being a bank note collecter I can see that something like this would have some novelty value.

The other recent thread on the subject..


I disagree; they have minimal numismatic value, but I would think "none at all" is a little harsh. Even outright counterfeit money has some "numismatic value", even if they are completely illegal to own. $15 for a set of what is in effect no different to "Monopoly money" seems a little steep.


I quoted the Australian law in the forum post linked to above, and by that law, I reckon these notes would qualify as "counterfeit". As for the gold-buyers "funny money" advertisements, the key thing to note with them is "oversized". Though Australian law does not state it specifically, copies of notes are OK so long as they are sufficiently enlarged or reduced in size that no-one could reasonably confuse them. American law states it more specifically, that reproductions of banknotes and postage stamps are OK so long as "the illustration is of a size less than three-fourths or more than one and one-half, in linear dimension, of each part of the item illustrated". These exact same ratios are used on the RBA's own page of guidelines for using banknonte images in the media.

Making the notes wrong-sized would of course defeat the purpose of using them for training.

Whilst I accept that training notes do exist I have difficulty in accepting that these are genuine training notes.Why do all these notes come from China? Do other countries PRODUCE their own training notes for other countries? For instance does Australia produce training notes of other countries for their own banks? Does Switzerland produce their own training notes for other countries?
I accept that anyone has the right to collect what they want but think that this an example of why the Chinese are rolling in money by deceiving the world.

Hard evidence is what I need and not what some website claims.

for the previous 2 posts.