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10 Sen
| Issuer | Bank of Chosun |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in rose-red, dominated by an intricate guilloche lathe-work pattern that fills the entire field. A central horizontal cartouche carries the denomination legend TEN SEN in Roman letters, flanked on the left by a large stylised floral rosette vignette and on the right by the numeral 10 set within a matching ornamental frame. The arched inscription The Bank of Chosun runs along the top border in English script. |
| Reverse lettering | The Bank of Chosun TEN SEN 10 |
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The Bank of Chosun — Japan's colonial central bank for Korea — issued this 10 Sen note as small-denomination paper currency became necessary when wartime metal demands stripped coinage from circulation. By the mid-1930s, copper and nickel were being redirected toward military production, and low-value paper filled the gap left by disappearing coins.
P#27 belongs to a series that saw heavy everyday use in Korean markets, and genuinely uncirculated survivors are less common than catalog frequency suggests. The notes were considered disposable by users and discarded accordingly.