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4 Momme 6 Fun Akita
| Issuer | Kubota Domain |
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| Year | 1863-1864 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears vertically arranged stamped characters in regular script denoting the denomination 'Revised Four Monme Six Fun' (改四匁六分). Four oval seal-script stamps (裕) are arranged symmetrically at the corners of the oval flan, serving as authenticating marks of the issuing domain authority. The inscription is applied by a punching or stamping technique characteristic of Japanese feudal domain coinage of the Edo period. |
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| Obverse lettering | 裕 裕 改 四 匁 六 分 裕 裕 (Translation: Revised Four Monme Six Fun) |
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Kubota Domain issued this piece under the emergency monetary pressures of the early 1860s, when the forced opening of Japanese ports to foreign trade destabilized the Tokugawa monetary system almost overnight. Foreign merchants arbitraged gold out of Japan at ruinous rates, and many domains responded by striking their own silver coinage to manage local exchange outside the collapsing national framework. Kubota — the castle town of Akita han — was among them.
The 4 Momme 6 Fun denomination is specific to Akita's own weight standard, not the central Tokugawa system.