Chinese One Yuan Bank Training Note

The story

This is a 练功券, “skill-practice voucher”, used by bank staff to train for cash counting rather than to buy anything. The front text says it is for cashier cash-counting competitions, and the back warns that it is for internal use and must not be circulated. Such teller training notes are institutional consumables not meant for the public, and most are destroyed after use. The designs borrow familiar Chinese scenes: the Great Wall on the front and a large bridge on the back, though the note does not say which sections or which bridge. Training notes remain necessary because cash-handling errors carry real liability, even as mobile payments reduce cash use.