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1 Kan Mon Kagoshima Domain
| Issuer | Kagoshima Domain (薩摩藩) |
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| Year | 1868 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 錢壹貫文 用通国弎 国鈔會所 (Translation: Cash One Kan Mon Three Provinces Circulatable Province Bill Office) |
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| Protection description | Circular black hand-applied ink stamp on reverse serving as an official validation seal of the issuing domain authority |
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Kagoshima Domain — the political base of the Satsuma han — issued this note during one of the most consequential years in Japanese history. The Meiji Restoration was underway, and Satsuma had been central to the coalition that toppled the Tokugawa shogunate. Domain-issued paper currency (hansatsu) had circulated in Japan since the late seventeenth century, but by 1868 the new imperial government was already moving to suppress it — hansatsu were formally abolished in 1871 under the currency unification laws that preceded the creation of the yen.
Any note from this domain and this year was functionally obsolete within three years of issue.