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10 Cents Japanese Government
| Issuer | Japanese Government (Military Administration) |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Value | 10 Cents (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in purple on a pale yellow underprint, the obverse carries the Dutch-language title 'De Japansche Regeering' (The Japanese Government) alongside the denomination 'Tien Cent' and Japanese kanji characters '大日本帝國政府'. A plate letter S prefix appears as part of the serial numbering system. |
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| Obverse lettering | DE JAPANSCHE REGEERING TIEN CENT 府政國帝本日大 (Translation: The Japanese Government Ten Cents The Japanese Government) |
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Japan issued a broad series of low-denomination military currency for occupied territories during the Pacific War, and this 10 sen note belongs to that program — designed for use across Southeast Asian and Pacific occupation zones rather than tied to a single territory. No issuing bank stands behind it; the Japanese government itself was the authority, which stripped local banking institutions of any intermediary role and made the notes instruments of direct economic control over occupied populations.
The series is relatively common in circulated grades. Survivors in genuinely uncirculated condition are less so, partly because these notes passed through hands in tropical climates hard on paper.