Catalog
3 Silver Monme Shiga, Mikawa
| Issuer | Nagasawa Sanbutsukai (長澤産物會所) |
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| Year | 1730 |
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| Value | 3 Monme |
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| Obverse description | At the top, a vignette of Daikokuten, the deity of fortune and wealth, seated atop two bales of rice; below, a series of text cartouches arranged vertically with a large red official seal stamp at centre. The lower register carries a wave vignette with two turtles, beneath which an ornamental government seal in seal-script calligraphy is framed on both sides by semicircular wave-pattern borders. |
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| Obverse lettering | 形手物産澤長 〇 〇 〇 〇 〇 〇 〇 銀 〇 〇 叁 〇 〇 匁 〇 〇 〇 〇 〇 〇 〇 長 澤 〇 所 |
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The Nagasawa Sanbutsukai was a regional commodity association — a sanbutsukaisha-type body — rather than a formally chartered financial institution, which makes its issuance of negotiable paper an interesting case of early Edo-period commercial pragmatism. Silver monme denominations were common units in western Japan's mercantile accounting system, but paper instruments denominating silver by weight in a rural Mikawa context reflect how deeply credit-based trade had penetrated provincial markets by the third decade of the eighteenth century.
Mulberry bark paper — the same base material used for most Edo hansatsu — was chosen for its durability under repeated handling, though provincial clan and merchant notes of this period suffer disproportionately from fold failures along the vertical crease.