5 Silver Monme private issue, Oono-gumi

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Legenda del dritto	銀五卜分代諸銀物預品切農手商 (Translation: Five bu of silver Various things and goods charge a silver deposit Agriculture and commerce stamp)
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Legenda del rovescio	巳己治明大野組橋杉平萩下山野原弥利助宗兵三一衛郎平 (Translation: Meiji era, year of the yīn earth snake (1869) Oono-gumi Sohei Hagiwara Sukesaburo Hirano Toshibei Sugiyama Yaichi Hashishita)
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Commenti	Oono-gumi was one of several private merchant associations operating exchange shops (ryōgaeshō) that briefly filled the credit vacuum left by Japan's chaotic monetary transition following the Meiji Restoration. The 1869 date places this squarely in the interregnum between the old Tokugawa silver weight system and the new decimal currency introduced by the 1871 New Currency Act — which is precisely why it is denominated in monme, a traditional mass unit for silver, rather than any standardized coin value. Private fractional notes of this type were declared illegal shortly after 1871 and ordered redeemed, which drove most into destruction.