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100 Mon Mikawa
| Issuer | Japan |
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| Year | 1730 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion carries a vignette of the goddess Benzaiten, a deity associated with wealth and fortune. Below the vignette, a vertical arrangement of text panels bears the denomination inscription in classical Chinese characters. A red circular seal with a square central perforation — evoking the form of a traditional cash coin — appears as an authenticating stamp. |
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| Reverse lettering | 享 應 保 ◯◯ 楮 十 ◯◯ 數 五 ◯◯ 換 穐 ◯◯ 國 初 ◯◯ 產 鏤 品 所替引州河 |
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Mikawa Province han notes occupy an interesting corner of Edo-period monetary history. The Tokugawa shogunate permitted individual domains to issue their own paper currency — hansatsu — for circulation strictly within their boundaries, a deliberate policy of monetary fragmentation that kept economic power decentralized. Mikawa, as a province with particular symbolic resonance as the ancestral home of the Tokugawa clan itself, was no exception to this system.
The 160 × 37 mm strip format is characteristic of hansatsu production, typically block-printed on washi using locally sourced mulberry fiber. Official domain seals functioned as the primary authentication device — sophisticated counterfeiting was rare not because it was technically difficult but because a forged note was only useful within a single domain, dramatically limiting the incentive.