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1/2 Shu Takayama Prefecture Note

Emittent Takayama Prefecture
Jahr 1869
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Währung Ryō (1595-1874)
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Vorderseitenbeschreibung A locally issued note in the traditional Japanese woodblock-printed style, with text and decorative elements rendered in period calligraphic script. The face carries the denomination and issuing authority designations in vertical Japanese characters, typical of Meiji-era prefectural scrip.
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Rückseitenbeschreibung Plain or lightly printed reverse consistent with mid-Meiji period local currency issues, bearing authentication text or decorative border elements in keeping with the conventions of Takayama Prefecture scrip of 1869.
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Takayama Prefecture had one of the shortest administrative existences in modern Japanese history — established in 1868, it was abolished and absorbed into Chikuma Prefecture in 1871. The notes it issued during that window fall into a category of hyper-local Meiji transitional currency, printed during the chaotic period when the new government was simultaneously dismantling the old domain monetary system and attempting to impose centralized control over paper issue.

The 1/2 shu denomination is among the smallest fractional values in this series, suggesting it was intended for everyday small transactions during a period when metallic coinage was genuinely scarce in the mountainous Hida region.