1 Monme Nara

€343,998.00
IssuerJapan
Year1865
TypeLocal banknote
Value1 Monme
CurrencyMonme Silver / Monme-Gin / Ginme (1601-1874)
Composition
Size152 × 38 mm
ShapeRectangular
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Obverse descriptionBlack print; red overstamps. Vertical inscriptions of denomination in semi-cursive. At the top, lying cattle, indicating year of the Ox, facing left, head turned right, surrounded by four letters, reads vertically, right to left. At the bottom, vertical inscriptions Red stamped in half circle on the top. Red stamped circle on denomination.
Reverse descriptionBlack print; red and black overstamps. At the top, first frame: inscriptions reads right to left. Second frame: Vertical inscriptions. Third frame: inscriptions reads right to left. At the bottom, fourth frame: Multiple columns of vertical inscriptions. Red stamped rice bundle in the middle of second frame. Black stamped inscriptions in oval, one top left of second frame and one to the right of the inscription in second frame. Red stamped inscriptions in oval on th the top left inscriptions of the fourth frame.
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Obverse lettering元  慶
年  應
  銀
  壱
  匁
  也

引   〇 此
替 奈 〇 手
所 良 〇 形
  南 〇 〇
  新 可 〇
詰 町 〇 次
所     第

(Translation: Year Keiō 1st Silver One Monme Nara Minami Shinchō Exchange office   Office (duty))
Reverse lettering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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Catalog ID2458161910
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