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50 Yen
| Issuer | Bank of Japan |
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| Year | 1951-1958 |
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| Value | 50 Yen |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 50 Q053515S 日本銀行券 50 日本銀行 五百円 Q053515S 高橋 是清 500 日本銀券印刷局製造 50 (Translation: Bank of Japan note Bank of Japan 500 yen Korekiyo Takahashi Manufactured by Bank of Japan Printing Bureau) |
| Reverse description | Printed in brown, the reverse presents an oval vignette of the Bank of Japan's main headquarters building in Tokyo at left, rendered in fine intaglio line work and surrounded by intricate guilloche scrollwork. A large latent-style numeral "50" occupies the right field against a pale underprint, with a red circular seal at centre. The inscription "NIPPON GINKO" runs along the top border and "50 YEN" appears in bold lettering within a decorative panel at the base. |
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Japan's postwar currency reconstruction moved in stages, and this 50 Yen note belongs to the period when the Bank of Japan was still working within severe paper and ink constraints imposed by occupation-era resource shortages. The Printing Bureau had resumed domestic production after American GHQ oversight began to ease, but full technical recovery took years.
The watermark — a simple pattern by international standards — reflects what the Bureau could consistently reproduce at volume during this transitional window. By 1958, rising coin production made low-denomination paper notes increasingly uneconomical, and the 50 Yen note was phased out in favor of the nickel 50 Yen coin introduced that same year.