Catalog
1000 Yen brown, green serial
| Issuer | Bank of Japan |
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| Year | 1993-2003 |
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| Reference(s) | P#100 |
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| Obverse lettering | 1000 VS834109X 1000 日本銀行券 千円 日本銀行 夏目 漱石 VS834109X 大蔵省印刷局製造 (Translation: Bank of Japan note Thousand yen Bank of Japan Sōseki Natsume Manufactured by the Printing Bureau of the Finance Ministry) |
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| Reverse lettering | NIPPON GINKO 1000 1000YEN (Translation: Bank of Japan) |
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The Natsume Soseki 1000 Yen ran for a remarkably long stretch given Japan's printing bureau was simultaneously developing the more sophisticated 2004 series, which would introduce the microprinted security upgrades and new color-shifting ink that finally replaced it. By the late 1990s this note was circulating alongside early intaglio-heavy issues from other major economies, and Japan's relatively restrained security specification drew notice from counterfeit analysts — the thread and watermark combination was considered thin protection for a denomination of this value.