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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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| Referentie(s) | P#S113 |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | Tall, narrow note printed in black on laid paper. The upper register contains a circular vignette rendered in woodblock style, showing a stylised sun or full moon rising above bamboo and foliage, set within a decorative floral border. The central field bears large bold characters naming the issuing exchange office, overlaid with a prominent red circular official seal. The lower section is divided into panels with bundle-of-rice vignettes at the sides and additional text identifying the issuing authority and date, with the character for harmony (和) at the right margin. |
| Opschrift keerzijde | 米 會 所 木倉所 引 香日所 請 大 若板星治 和 (Translation: Rice Exchange / Timber Warehouse Office / Redemption / Fragrance Exchange Office / Request / Osaka Hoshiji / Harmony) |
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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.