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| Issuer | Japanese Government (Occupying Authority) |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Printer | National Printing Bureau (国立印刷局, Imperial Printing Bureau of Japan), Japan (1871-date) |
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| Obverse description | Brown on green underprint. Plate letter S prefix at left; a breadfruit tree vignette at left and a coconut palm at right flank the central text panel. Dutch-language legend identifying the Japanese Government as issuing authority appears across the note, with Chinese characters reading 大日本帝國政府 along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in brown on uncolored paper. The central panel bears a large numeral '1' set within a rectangular guilloche framework, flanked on both sides by bold white numerals '1' overlaid on elaborate scalloped guilloche rosettes. Decorative scroll ornaments appear above and below the central panel, with a fine geometric lathe-work border running the full perimeter. |
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| Variants | P#123a - Block letters SA, SB with serial # without watermark P#123b - Block letters SB-SH, SL P#123c(1) - Block letters SI, SN Block letter "S" upright P#123c(2) - Block letters SI, SN error: Block letter "S" inverted |
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