Catalog
10 Yen Provisional issues with adhesive stamps
| Issuer | Bank of Japan |
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| Year | 1946 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 496464 {85} 10 券行銀本日 拾 日 10 圓 本 銀 行 10 {85} 496464 10 造幣局刷印閣内 (Translation: Bank of Japan note Ten yen Bank of Japan Printed by the Cabinet Printing Bureau) |
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| Reverse lettering | 券行銀本日 10 10 圓拾 (Translation: Bank of Japan note Ten yen) |
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Japan's postwar currency reform of March 1946 moved fast. The government froze bank accounts and imposed strict withdrawal limits, forcing the Bank of Japan to release new low-denomination notes before adequate printing capacity could produce them in sufficient volume. The solution was pragmatic and ugly: existing 10 Yen wartime notes were overprinted with adhesive stamps to validate them under the new regime, distinguishing "new yen" from the old frozen currency.
The stamps were applied by hand at financial institutions, and adhesion quality varies considerably — detached or partially lifted stamps are among the most common condition problems with this type. Pick 79 is the adhesive-stamp variant specifically; the underlying note it validates dates from an earlier wartime printing run by the same Cabinet bureau.