Catalog
1000 Yen
| Issuer | Bank of Japan |
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| Year | 1950-1965 |
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| Currency | Yen (1871-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | 1000 1000 DC155175G 日本銀行券 1000 千円 日本銀行 DC155175G 聖徳太子 1000 日本銀券印刷局製造 1000 (Translation: Bank of Japan note Thousand yen Bank of Japan Prince Shōtoku Manufactured by Bank of Japan Printing Bureau) |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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P#92 spans a fifteen-year emission window, but the note's real significance lies in what it replaced: the immediate postwar occupation-era scrip and the inflationary yen issues that preceded the 1949 Dodge Line stabilization. By 1950, Japan had fixed the yen at 360 to the dollar, and a 1000-yen note represented roughly $2.78 USD — a figure that put it firmly in daily transactional use rather than reserve denomination territory.
The Bank of Japan Printing Bureau produced the entire run domestically, a point worth noting given how many postwar issues from smaller economies went abroad to foreign printers. Watermark security was modest by later standards, and the series was eventually retired as the economy outgrew its design generation.