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10 Yen
| Issuer | Bank of Japan |
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| Year | 1930 |
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| Reference(s) | P#40 |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 849081 {722} 10 券換究行銀本日 日 拾 相此 10 本 圓 渡券 銀 可引 行 申換 候に 金 貨 拾 圓 10 {722} 849081 10 造幣局刷印閣内府政國帝本日大 (Translation: Bank of Japan convertible note Bank of Japan Ten yen This bill can be exchanged for ten yen in gold Imperial Government of Japan Cabinet Printing Bureau) |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 10 券換究行銀本日 拾 拾 10 YEN 10 10 (Translation: Bank of Japan convertible note Ten 10 yen) |
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| Variants | P#40a - issued note P#40z(1) - with propaganda message on back P#40z(2) - with propaganda message on back P#40z(3) - with propaganda message on back The purpose of this message was to stir Japanese resentment against their government and to create fear of inflation. Translation of the text on back: In 1930, when the Gumbatsu (militarists) had not yet started the war in China, you could buy the following items for 10 yen: * 25 sho (about 20 Kg) of good rice. * Or material for 8 summer kimonos. * Or 4 bags (50 Kg packages) of charcoal. In 1937, after the start of the Occupation of China, you could buy the following for 10 yen: * 25 sho of low grade rice. * Or material for 5 summer kimonos. * Or 2 bags of charcoal. Today, after three years of hopeless warfare with the world's greatest powers, you can buy the following with 10 yen: * 1/2 sho of good rice in the black market. * Or a small amount of charcoal, if you can get it. * Cotton material: nothing. This is what your leaders call co-prosperity! |
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