10 Yen Provisional issues with adhesive stamps

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.