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5 Sen
| Issuer | Government of Japan |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black on plain paper and is dominated by a large circular stamp box at upper left bearing the legend 要入日附印 (Date Entry Stamp Required). The remainder of the field is occupied by a dense block of vertical Japanese instructional text headed 注意 (Notice), setting out the conditions of use for this postal stamp sheet, including provisions regarding postal savings deposits and the handling of damaged stamps. |
| Reverse lettering | 要入日附印 注意 此の切手は貼附の儀十錢以上 貯金の預入又は振替貯金の振 込に用いられれば振替貯金な れ此の切手は貯金振替貯金なら ば無制限に預文振替貯金なら ば此の切手は毀損汚班しますと 部便局所で受付ませぬから 成丁寧に御扱ひなさい |
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Japan's small-denomination treasury notes of this period were a direct response to the coin shortage that developed during World War One. Rising global demand for metals, particularly nickel and copper, made it economically irrational to strike low-value coins, so the government turned to paper scrip for denominations that had previously existed only in metal.
P#26 belongs to a short-lived series that was withdrawn relatively quickly once postwar metal supplies stabilized. These circulated hard in daily transactions — rice sellers, street vendors, small change — and surviving examples without heavy soiling or tears are genuinely uncommon for that reason.