Catalog
10 Yen
| Issuer | Dai-Ichi Ginko Ltd. (First National Bank) |
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| Year | 1908 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black on white paper with red overprint characters 見本 (specimen). At centre, large vertical Chinese/Korean characters reading 拾圓 (Ten Yen) flanked by vertical text columns. A circular guilloche underprint field occupies the left, while a vignette on the right portrays a traditional East Asian pavilion set within a garden landscape. The upper border carries the issuer's name in Chinese characters within an ornate floral frame, with denomination characters 拾 repeated in the upper corners. |
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| Reverse lettering | DAI-ICHI GINKO LIMITED Promises to Pay the Bearer on Demand TEN YEN IN JAPANESE CURRENCY AT ANY OF ITS BRANCHES IN COREA 10 TEN |
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Dai-Ichi Ginko — Japan's First National Bank — operated in Korea under a quasi-central bank mandate before the Bank of Korea was formally established. This note circulated in Korea, not Japan proper, during a period when Tokyo was consolidating financial control over the peninsula ahead of formal annexation in 1910. The bank effectively functioned as a colonial monetary authority, issuing currency that displaced existing Korean instruments.
ABNC's New York engraving is characteristic of the firm's East Asian commissions from that period — high-quality intaglio work contracted out because no domestic Japanese printer could yet match the security printing standard required.