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10 Sen Japanese Military Occupation
| Issuer | Imperial Japanese Government (大日本帝國政府) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 10 Sen |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette is dominated by two confronting long-tailed onagadori fowl in the upper register and two coiling imperial dragons in the lower register, all enclosed within an ornate cartouche of guilloche latticework and circular medallions. The Imperial chrysanthemum seal appears at the top centre of the cartouche, flanked by decorative column panels. Denomination numerals '10' appear in the upper left and lower right corners in Arabic figures, with their kanji equivalents '拾' in the upper right and lower left corners, and the value '拾錢' inscribed centrally between the birds and dragons. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue-green and bears a large central guilloche underprint of scalloped cartouche form, within which a decorative frame encloses multiple lines of vertical Chinese-character text setting out the note's legal tender provisions. A prominent circular red seal in the kanji script is applied at the top centre of the note, with a chrysanthemum motif at its base, serving as the official government validation stamp. |
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Japan's military occupation currency for China was introduced in 1937 alongside the invasion of the Chinese mainland, intended to supplant locally circulating coins and notes in occupied territories. The 10 Sen denomination — the lowest in the military scrip series — targeted everyday transactions at market level, where coin shortages were most acute. Flooding occupied areas with low-denomination paper was both practical logistics and deliberate monetary disruption.
The Cabinet Printing Bureau's involvement is notable: this was a domestic government press, not a commercial security printer, which kept production tightly under state control from the outset of the campaign.