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1 Monme with red overstamp
| Issuer | Hiroshima Domain (Japanese feudal domains) |
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| Year | 1847 |
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| Currency | Mon (794-1870) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black with a red overstamp; black seals applied. A full-length vignette of Daikokuten, the god of wealth, is positioned at the top, front-facing and standing upon two rice bales while shouldering a large treasure bag with his right hand. The denomination is rendered vertically within a cartouche in the centre of the note, with the issuing authority inscription below, followed by vertical columns bearing the names of responsible officials. |
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| Reverse lettering | 壹 * ん め (Translation: One Monme.) |
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Hiroshima Domain's paper money circulated as domain-specific hansatsu — notes valid only within the issuing han's territory and legally worthless beyond its borders. This created a fractured monetary geography across Tokugawa Japan, with hundreds of feudal domains running parallel currency systems that merchants navigating domain borders had to manage through exchange brokers. The 1 monme denomination was a silver-unit abstraction; actual silver payment was rarely made, the note functioning instead as a transferable credit within the domain's commercial circuit.
The red overstamp on this example almost certainly indicates a revalidation or authorized re-issue — a common administrative mechanism when domain finances were restructured, not evidence of a separate printing.