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1 Bu 'Enbukin'
| Issuer | Japan |
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| Year | 1589 |
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| Value | 1 Bu (1/4) |
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| Reverse description | Irregular round hammered gold flan featuring a prominent central calligraphic or decorative device in high relief, flanked by four stylized foliate motifs disposed symmetrically in the field. The central emblem, rendered in bold raised lines, is characteristic of the authentication or issuer mark applied to Enbukin-type gold bu coinage of the Toyotomi period. The entire design is enclosed by a continuous border of raised granular beads along the rim. |
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| Mintage | 1589: ND (1589) |
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The Enbukin (鉛分金) takes its name from a misreading corrected by later scholars — "en" referring to the elongated, hammered form produced under Toyotomi Hideyoshi's consolidation of gold coinage in the late Sengoku period. Hideyoshi's currency reforms were as much political as economic: standardizing gold denominations was a direct assertion of central authority over the regional daimyo who had previously issued their own coinage with little oversight.
The .843 fineness reflects a transitional alloy regime, slightly below the purity that would become standard under early Tokugawa issues.