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5 Fun
| Issuer | Ashimori Domain (Japanese feudal domains) |
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| Year | 1730 |
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| Value | 5 Fun (0.5) |
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| Reverse description | Black letterpress print with red overstamps. A kirin (mythical hooved chimerical creature) is rendered facing and running left in the upper register; the central field carries a vertical inscription flanked by decorative motifs. At the lower register, a kinchaku (drawstring money bag) is set within a rectangular frame and flanked by dragon vignettes. Red official seals appear in the upper and central areas. |
| Reverse lettering | 五 ふ ん (Translation: Five Fun) |
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Ashimori was a tiny 25,000-koku domain in Bitchu Province, and its right to issue paper currency — like all domain notes, or hansatsu — rested entirely on the Tokugawa shogunate's tolerance of the practice rather than any formal monetary authority. These notes circulated only within the domain's own territory and among merchants who accepted the domain's creditworthiness as collateral. For a domain this small, that was a genuinely precarious arrangement.
The fun denomination is a subdivision of the momme, placing this firmly in the silver-denominated hansatsu tradition of western Japan rather than the gold-reckoning system dominant in Edo.