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10 Sen
| Issuer | Bank of Chosen |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Printed in rose-pink, the reverse carries a central guilloche panel with the bold letterpress inscription 'TEN SEN' and numeral '10', surrounded by the English promise clause 'The Bank of Chosen Promises to Pay the Bearer on Demand' and 'In Japanese Currency at Any of Its Manchurian Offices'. Cyrillic text in the upper margin reads 'Бонъ Цiосень Банка' with '10 Сенъ' repeated at either side, and a further Cyrillic legend along the lower margin confirms redeemability at the bank's Manchurian branches. Vertical columns of Chinese text flank the central vignette on both sides. |
| Reverse lettering | 10 Сенъ Бонъ Цiосень Банка 10 Сенъ The Bank of Chosen Promises to Pay the Bearer on Demand TEN SEN IN JAPANESE CURRENCY AT ANY OF ITS MANCHURIAN OFFICES Обмѣнивается на Японскую Монету въ Отдѣленіяхъ Банка въ Манчжуріи |
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The Bank of Chōsen — Japan's colonial central bank for Korea — issued this 10 Sen note as a direct response to a wartime copper shortage that had stripped small-denomination metallic coinage from everyday commerce. The fractional paper series it belongs to was itself a stopgap measure, widely resented in Korea precisely because it symbolized the extraction of metal resources for the Japanese war effort in the 1910s.
By 1919, the political temperature in Korea had reached a breaking point. The March 1st Movement erupted that year — the largest organized resistance to Japanese colonial rule — and notes like this one circulated through markets and hands in the immediate aftermath of those uprisings.