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1 Monme Nara

Emittente Japan
Anno 1865
Tipo Local banknote
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Descrizione del dritto Vertically oriented note printed in black with red overstamps; the upper register bears a vignette of a reclining ox facing left with head turned right, surrounded by four characters denoting the year of the Ox, serving as the cyclical date marker. The central field carries vertical semi-cursive inscriptions stating the denomination and issuing office, with a red circular stamp over the denomination and a red half-circle stamp at the top. The lower register identifies the exchange office at Nara Minami Shinchō in vertical columns reading right to left.
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Legenda del rovescio 廻   良   奈
薬   御
    年 改
    貢 合
    米
    手
    形
村ケ八所料御
 取    芝 京
 締    辻 終
 惣  庄 村 村
 代  屋
    年 法 城
    寄 蓮 戸
法芝城 總 村 村
蓮辻戸 百
村村村 姓 半 杉
    請 田 ヶ
彦久吉 屓 開 町
兵五㔫   村 村
衛郎エ
  門   奈 油
︵﹇︵ ﹇ 良 坂
〇〇〇 會 坂 村
︶﹈︶ ﹈ 村
(Translation: Nara Annual rice tribute bill Imperial office eight villages Kyōbate village  Jōdo village  Surugamachi village  Aburasaka village Shibatsuji village  Hōren village  Handabiraki village  Narasaka village Village head, assistant, all the villagers [] [Association] Management representatives Jōdo-Mura Kichizaemon () Shibatsuji-Mura {HISAGORŌ / KYŪGORŌ} [] Hōren-Mura Hikobē ())
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This note was issued by the Nara Exchange Office (奈良為替会所), one of dozens of short-lived regional exchange bureaus that proliferated across Japan in the final years of the Tokugawa shogunate. These offices were authorized to issue their own paper money — hansatsu — as the central government's grip on monetary affairs weakened. The monme was a silver weight unit, not a coin denomination, which meant the note's value floated against actual bullion rather than a fixed metallic standard.

The bureau at Nara was dissolved within a few years of the Meiji Restoration, and its notes were recalled and demonetized as the new government moved to consolidate currency issuance. Surviving examples are scarce partly because redemption was enforced aggressively in the early 1870s.