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1 Silver monme Mibu Domain
| Issuer | Mibu Domain (Japanese feudal domain) |
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| Currency | Monme (1868-1871) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in black on plain paper. A front-facing vignette of Daikoku, the deity of wealth, is positioned at the upper portion of the note. A red control stamp appears toward the center of the note face. |
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| Obverse lettering | 預價米御 銀 壹 匁 安政改 領生壬州播 米 會 所 （榮） (Translation: Silver One Monme Rice exchange) |
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Mibu Domain, a small han in Shimotsuke Province (present-day Tochigi Prefecture), issued paper currency backed by silver monme — a weight-based unit rather than a coined denomination. These domain notes, known broadly as hansatsu, circulated only within the issuing domain's commercial territory and were redeemable against the domain's own reserves. Acceptance outside that boundary was essentially zero.
Mibu's fiscal output was modest; the domain's assessed productivity (kokudaka) sat at just 20,000 koku, leaving little margin for overissuance without risking immediate loss of public trust in redemption.