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1 Sen and 3 Rin over 1 Silver Monme
| Uitgever | Namba Kome Kaisho (Namba Rice Exchange), Osaka |
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| Jaar | 1872 |
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| Afmetingen | 145 × 36 mm |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Tall, narrow note printed in black on laid paper. The upper section carries a rectangular border enclosing the issuer's heading in Chinese characters. Below it, a central vignette presents a woodblock-style image of the deity Daikoku seated, flanked by decorative wave and cloud motifs on either side. The lower portion bears the denomination inscription in large bold characters, with additional issuer and validity text in smaller script at the foot, accompanied by a red official seal stamped across the central field. |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | 南都改 銀 壹 匁 零年庄 取星寄屋 (Translation: Nanto Reform / One Monme in silver / Hoshiyoriya Exchange) |
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| Opmerkingen |
The Namba Kome Kaisho was one of Osaka's licensed rice brokerages operating under the early Meiji government's transitional commercial framework. This note predates the consolidation of private exchange scrip under the National Bank Act of 1872, which effectively ended the issuance of commodity-backed mercantile paper by private trading houses. Its dual denomination — expressing value simultaneously in the new decimal sen/rin system and the traditional silver monme — reflects the awkward monetary overlap of that precise moment, when Meiji reformers were pushing metrication but merchants still quoted rice in pre-modern weight units.
The monme valuation is the telling detail: it anchors this note directly to rice market practice rather than to any government monetary standard.