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1 Sen
| Issuer | Taiwan Government General |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 壹錢 日本産業債券 Sn |
| Reverse description | The reverse is largely unprinted, showing plain cream-coloured paper stock. A single large hand-drawn or pre-printed circular outline is positioned toward the right half of the note, likely intended as a cancellation or control marking area, with no other design elements present. |
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The Taiwan Government-General (Taiwan Sōtokufu) issued fractional currency in the late Meiji and Taishō periods largely to address the chronic small-change shortages that plagued colonial commerce. Copper coin production lagged well behind the pace of economic development the Japanese administration was deliberately forcing on the island, and paper sen notes filled the gap in a way that metal coinage simply couldn't keep up with.
The 1918 dating places this squarely in the middle of World War One, when global metal supplies were under severe pressure and Japanese mint priorities lay elsewhere.