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1 Monme Kawamo-mura
| Issuer | Kawamo-mura (村), Amagasaki Domain |
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| Year | 1857 |
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| Currency | Monme Silver / Monme-Gin / Ginme (1601-1874) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black on hand-made fibrous paper in the tall, narrow format typical of Edo-period hansatsu. The field carries brushed cursive script stating the denomination of one silver monme, the cyclical date (Hinoto-Mi, sixth month), and the issuing merchant names Hirashō and Tatsu Hiroshi. Three hand-applied circular and rectangular seal impressions in black ink are distributed vertically through the field, alongside two printed decorative cartouches — one oval with dense lattice diaper pattern at upper right and one rectangular with interlocking scroll ornament at lower right — serving as anti-counterfeiting devices. Two rectangular woodblock-printed label seals reading 再閲 and 本両替 appear at upper left. |
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| Obverse lettering | 再閲 本両替 並金 銀壹匁也 以此手形 丁巳六月 平宗 辰 廣 (Translation: Silver one Monme, be. This scrip can be exchanged. Fire Snake [1857], sixth month.) |
| Reverse description | Printed in black on the same fibrous hand-made paper. The upper portion carries a large circular cartouche filled with a dense, interlocking wave-scroll guilloche pattern. Below it, a rectangular block bears a woodblock-printed text panel surrounded by a scrollwork border. Cursive brushwork script and two additional seal impressions — one small square at left and one larger square at lower centre with a dense character matrix — complete the reverse, identifying the exchange agent and redemption location. |
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