A journalist from the Netherlands owns a unique Chinese banknote. Although it’s worth only 10 yuan (US$1.42), it might be “the most precious object” this reporter has ever owned. The mysterious and “practically worthless” bill landed in this lady’s wallet during a reporting trip to China a few years ago.
“What’s special about my banknote is that in China—a country where everything is about money, money and more money—nobody accepts the [expletive] thing. It’s practically worthless,” Mayke Blok wrote in her post for Vice.com.
