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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) |
| Reverse description | Letterpress in black with red seal overstamps. The upper section carries vertical inscriptions in columns reading right to left, stating the Meiji-era issue date and the five-year circulation limit. A rectangular cartouche at lower center contains a vertical inscription in Chinese seal script (篆書), and a lozenge-shaped frame at the base encloses a further inscription. A circular red seal is stamped at the rightmost column of text. |
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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.