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100 Mon Kumihama Prefecture
| Issuer | Kumihama Prefecture Commerce Office |
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| Year | 1868 |
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| Value | 100 Mon |
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| Obverse lettering | 錢百文 縣 久美濵縣 商法會所 (Translation: Cash Hundred Mon / Prefecture / Kumihama Prefecture / Commerce Office) |
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| Reverse lettering | 明治紀元發行 通用五年限 權克 貨幣 (Translation: Issued in the Meiji era / Valid for five years / Authority / Currency) |
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Kumihama was a minor han in Tango Province (present-day northern Kyoto Prefecture), and its Commerce Office notes were issued during the chaotic transitional months of the Meiji Restoration — a period when hundreds of local domains scrambled to produce their own paper currency before the new government could establish centralized monetary authority. The 1868 date places this squarely in that window, after the overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate but well before the 1871 New Currency Act rationalized the system.
Han notes of this type were formally demonetized and exchanged for Meiji government paper starting in 1872, meaning the circulation window was extremely short. Survival rates for minor han issues from this region are low.