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10 Sen - Taishō Japanese Siberian Expedition
| Issuer | Imperial Japanese Government |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Size | 109 × 76 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette composed of Japanese text flanked by two phoenix and two dragons, with Russian-language legends at left and right margins. The face value "10" appears at both lower corners alongside the denomination in Japanese characters. Printed in black on an ochre guilloche underprint. |
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| Reverse description | Central oval cartouche containing multi-line Japanese text, set within a layered ochre guilloche border of intricate lacework pattern. A circular red seal bearing Japanese characters is positioned below the cartouche at the lower center of the note. |
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Issued to pay Japanese troops deployed to Siberia following the Russian Revolution, this military scrip was part of a broader Allied intervention that saw Japanese forces remain in the Russian Far East until 1922 — far longer than any other participating nation. The scrip circulated alongside Russian rubles in a region experiencing catastrophic monetary collapse, and the exchange arithmetic alone made it a practical necessity rather than a prestige instrument.
P#M13 is the lowest denomination in the Taishō Siberian series. Small-denomination military scrip rarely survived in any quantity; it was spent, lost, or destroyed in the field.