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10 Sen - Taishō Japanese Siberian Expedition
| Issuer | Imperial Japanese Government |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 10 Sen (0.10) |
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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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| Obverse lettering | 票手用军 10 Сенъ Японскою Монетою 10 拾 (seal script) 金 拾 錢 大 日 本 帝 國 政 拾 府 10 Императорское Японское Правительство. 行発年七正大 (Translation: Military note 10 sen Japanese coin Ten Gold ten sen Imperial Japanese Government Ten Imperial Japanese Government. Year 7 of Taishō issue) |
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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.