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1 Monme Izushi Domain
| Issuer | Izushi Domain (出石藩) |
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| Year | 1716-1736 |
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| Size | 141 × 43 mm |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress print in black ink on brown paper with red overstamp. The upper register contains a large rectangular cartouche bearing the principal inscription, framed by decorative corner motifs and enclosed within a circular red seal. The lower register presents a stylized tortoise-shell (kikko) circular vignette, with a large black ink official seal applied to the central text area. |
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| Reverse lettering | 札銀石出州但 通 銀 享 壱 寳 匁 保 意如祥吉 (Translation: Tanshū (Tajima Province) Izushi silver note Silver one Monme Kyōhō currency Good luck as wish) |
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Izushi Domain was a small but stable han in Tajima Province under Tokugawa rule, and its locally issued paper currency — hansatsu — operated entirely within domain borders as a matter of shogunate policy. The 1 Monme denomination is expressed in silver monme, the unit used for mercantile exchange in western Japan, where silver-by-weight conventions dominated over the copper cash system prevalent in the east. This geographic monetary distinction is embedded in the denomination itself.
The official seal functions as the sole anti-counterfeiting measure, which was typical of hansatsu across the period — trust derived from the issuing domain's authority rather than from printing complexity.