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5 Yen 'Daikoku'
| Issuer | Bank of Japan |
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| Year | 1886 |
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| Value | 5 Yen (5 JPY) |
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| Obverse lettering | YEN 五 5 番貮叁五四第 號九壹第 券銀換兌 行銀本日 圓 五 日 FIVE 5 5 拾 YEN 本 候可相五銀へ引此 銀 也申渡圓貨尓か券 行 文書局長 各刑變銀 本法造行 處條偽ニ券兌 断ニ造係ノ換 ス照紙ル偽 シ幣罪造 テノハ NIPPON GINKO Promises to Pay the Bearer on Demand Five Yen in Silver モテ例換第太五明 ノ發ヲ銀十政月治 也行遵行八官廿十 ス奉券號布六七 ルシ條兑告日年 行銀本日 章之裁總 號九壹第 番貮叁五四第 5 五 造幣局刷印省藏大府政國帝本日大 YEN (Translation: 10 Ten No.16138 First Bank of Japan convertible silver note Ten yen Bank of Japan This note can be exchanged for five yen in silver. Director of Document Department The crime of altering and reproducing a convertible banknote shall be dealt with in accordance with this article of the Penal Code. These are issued in compliance with the provisions of the Ordinance of the Grand Council of State No. 18 of May 26th, year 17 of Meiji (1884) on convertible banknotes. Bank of Japan Seal of Governor Ten First No. 16138 10 Empire of Japan Government Ministry of Finance Printing Bureau) |
| Reverse description | Light-blue underprint with a red seal. The central vignette presents Daikoku, the Shinto god of fortune, shown frontally and seated atop two bales of rice with three mice below; he holds a mallet in his right hand and a sack of riches over his left shoulder, the whole composition set within an ornate medallion surrounded by sakura cherry blossom sprays. A rectangular red treasury seal bearing a vertical clerical-script inscription flanked by dragon motifs, enclosed within a double-circle border, appears at lower left. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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