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50 Sen Japanese Military Occupation
| Issuer | Imperial Japanese Government (大日本帝國政府) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette presents two confronted long-tailed Onagadori fowl in the upper register, their plumage rendered in fine intaglio line work, flanked symmetrically by two rearing dragons in the lower register, all enclosed within an ornate cartouche with guilloche side panels and a chrysanthemum imperial seal at the apex. Denomination numerals "50" appear in Arabic figures at the upper left and lower right corners, with kanji equivalents at the upper right and lower left. The issuer inscription 大日本帝國政府 occupies a central oval tablet, with the date 昭和十二年 and printer's imprint 内閣印刷局謹製 along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large scalloped oval guilloche underprint in golden yellow, composed of concentric lathe-work bands enclosing a central rectangular text panel with decorative foliate corner ornaments. A bold red circular seal bearing the imperial chrysanthemum and the characters 軍用匯兌 is positioned at the lower centre beneath the guilloche cartouche. The text panel carries a multi-line Chinese-language warning inscription against counterfeiting. |
| Reverse lettering | 正此票一到即換 面所開日本通貨 如有偽造便造仿 知情行變應造 或重貨著幼 |
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