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1 Monme

Emittent Japan (Local Han/Domain Issuer)
Jahr 1700-1868
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Material Paper
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Rückseitenbeschreibung The reverse presents vertical columns of brush-written and woodblock-printed Japanese text stating the denomination and issuing authority, arranged within a plain ruled border. An ornamental geometric panel occupies the upper portion, and a rectangular inked seal impression in black appears to the lower left, with additional cursive notations below a horizontal rule dividing the field.
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Beschreibung der Sicherheitsmerkmale Hand-applied red and black seal stamps of the issuing domain office, serving as authentication marks in lieu of modern security features.
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Anmerkungen

Han bills (hansatsu) circulated as local scrip within individual feudal domains throughout the Edo period, forbidden by the Tokugawa shogunate in theory but tolerated in practice wherever domain finances demanded it. The monme was a silver weight unit, so these notes functioned as silver-denominated obligations rather than representations of coin — a meaningful distinction in a monetary system where gold, silver, and copper each operated on separate, floating exchange rates.

Attribution to a specific issuing han is often impossible without legible seal impressions, and many surviving examples have faded or smudged stamps. The seal was the entire authentication mechanism.