1 Monme

€453,135.00
IssuerAshimori Domain (Japanese feudal domains)
Year1730
TypeLocal banknotes
Value1 Monme
CurrencyMonme Silver / Monme-Gin / Ginme (1601-1874)
CompositionPaper
Size167 × 40 mm
ShapeRectangular
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Obverse descriptionBlack print; red overstamp. Full length figure of Daikokuten front-facing, sitting on two rice bales, holding bag with both hands, with Nyoi-Hōju jewels in the background, at the top, several vertical text boxes in the middle. Vertical inscriptions surrounded by dragons at the bottom. Green and red stamp in the middle.
Reverse descriptionBlack print; red overstamps. Motif at the top, vertical inscriptions in cartouche in the middle flanked by Chōji motifs. Vertical inscriptions at the bottom. Red stamp on top section.
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Obverse lettering享保十五庚戌年
壹匁
備中足守銀札
阪大
鴻池
錢屋
(Translation: Kyōhō fifteenth Fire Dog year One Monme Bitchū Ashimori silver bill Osaka Kōnoike)
Reverse lettering銀壹匁
隂陽者太極之分殊
五行者隂陽之分殊
隂陽旡窮五行旡竭
蘓戊羅無根阿踞巳
弘蔓支葉作錢二銀
印覃充國中富民物
(Translation: Silver one Monme)
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Catalog ID1395212380
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