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2 Monme 'Akita Fūgin'
| Issuer | Kubota Domain |
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| Year | 1863 |
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| Weight | 7.80 g |
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| Obverse script | Japanese |
| Obverse lettering | 二 匁 (Translation: Two Monme) |
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Kubota Domain's silver issues circulated under dispensation from the Tokugawa shogunate, which permitted certain domains to mint local coinage as han-satsu equivalents in metal. The Akita Fūgin series was produced at a moment when the shogunate's own monetary authority was visibly fracturing — debased central coinages had been eroding commercial confidence for decades, and domain-level silver offered merchants a trusted alternative with a known fineness.
The .985 fineness is exceptionally high for domain silver of this period, most of which ran considerably baser.