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100 Seibuen
| Issuer | Seibu-en Yuenchi (Seibu Amusement Park) |
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| Year | 2021-2024 |
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| Value | 100 Seibuen |
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| Reverse description | Printed in teal-green on white paper with a scalloped guilloche border. At left, a large circular guilloche underprint frames the bold numeral "100"; at centre-right, a monochrome photographic vignette of the Seibu-en Yuenchi main building is set within a rectangular frame. A red circular seal overprint appears at centre, with "SEIBUEN YUENCHI" and "100 SEIBUEN" in Roman lettering above and below respectively. |
| Reverse lettering | 発行日当日限り有効 SEIBUEN YUENCHI １００ 西 園武 100SEIBUEN (Translation: Valid only on the day Seibuen amusement park) |
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Seibu-en Yuenchi in Tokorozawa issued its own internal currency — the Seibuen — as part of the park's broader "Furusato Village" attraction, a nostalgic recreation of a mid-Showa rural Japan aesthetic. The notes circulated exclusively within designated vendor areas inside the park and had no value outside the gates. This kind of closed-loop scrip was not uncommon in Japanese theme parks, but Seibu-en's version attracted attention from notaphilists precisely because it was printed with enough care to read as a genuine small-denomination note rather than a novelty coupon.
The park itself closed permanently in August 2023, which gives notes from the final operating season a hard terminus date.