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5 Sen
| Issuer | Taiwan Government General |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 金額 通帳番号 番号及入 日届番号 名氏所箱 五錢 5 SEN 台野銀貨発行 日本帝国政府 |
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| Protection description | Large circular watermark visible on the right half of the reverse. |
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The Taiwan Government General — the Japanese colonial administration in Taiwan — began issuing its own low-denomination paper currency in 1918 partly to address a chronic shortage of small coin in circulation. These fractional notes circulated alongside Bank of Taiwan issues but were a distinct administrative instrument, reflecting the Governor-General's broad fiscal autonomy under Japanese colonial governance.
The watermark is worth noting on a note of this denomination and period — it places this issue above the emergency scrip quality typical of wartime fractional paper elsewhere in the Japanese empire at the time.