Catalog
3 Sen
| Issuer | Taiwan Government General |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 金額 通帳號 番号又ハ 口座番号 宿所氏名 台灣總督府發行 參錢 3 Sen 印日國帝大 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely plain, printed on unadorned cream paper with no text or vignette, save for a large unprinted circular reserve area outlined in black ink on the right half of the note, likely intended as a stamp or seal impression space. |
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The Taiwan Government-General currency notes of 1918 occupy an odd administrative niche: these were not Bank of Taiwan issues but direct government scrip, produced locally during a period when small-denomination coinage was chronically short in circulation. Sen-denomination notes of this type were a practical response to the hoarding of copper and bronze coin, a pattern repeated across Japanese-controlled territories during the First World War, when base metals were being diverted to munitions production.
Local printing at this scale was unusual for the colonial administration, which typically relied on more centralized facilities for currency production.