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50 Mon
| Issuer | Kubota Domain (Japanese feudal domains) |
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| Year | 1865 |
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| Value | 50 Mon |
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| Reverse description | Black letterpress print on blue paper. The upper register contains vertical inscriptions in Chinese seal script (tensho), reading right to left, enclosed within a fundō motif border. The lower register carries vertical inscriptions in Chinese regular script, likewise framed within a fundō motif border. |
| Reverse lettering | 慶應元 乙丑年 大阪引替取扱 加嶋屋弥十郎（〇） 辰巳屋欣助（〇） (Translation: Keiō first, Wood Ox year. Ōsaka exchangable.) |
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Kubota Domain — present-day Akita Prefecture — issued this note under the han-satsu system, the decentralized feudal paper money framework that allowed individual domains to print their own currency for local circulation. Han-satsu notes were legally prohibited from crossing domain boundaries, which means this 50 Mon piece was never intended to function beyond a tightly confined regional economy. The Meiji government abolished all han-satsu in 1871 as part of the currency centralization that followed the Restoration.
Blue paper distinguishes it within the Kubota series — color coding across denominations was a common anti-counterfeiting measure in han-satsu production.