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Silver 3 Bun Matsuda
| Issuer | Matsuda Matasuke San'yō-dō (松田又助産物會所) |
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| Year | 1730 |
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| Value | 3 Bun (0.3) |
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| Obverse lettering | 享 備 保 銀 中 十 足 五 三 守 庚 銀 戌 分 榜 歳 松 産 田 物 又 會 助 所 |
| Reverse description | Two deer face each other in a vignette at the upper register of the reverse, a motif commonly associated with Shinto shrines and auspicious imagery in Edo-period Japan. A single large text cartouche in classical Chinese characters occupies the central field below the vignette. Red and black seal impressions appear within and around the cartouche as authenticating marks. |
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Matsuda Matasuke's San'yō-dō was a private commodity exchange operating in western Honshū during the mid-Edo period, and this note represents the kind of locally-backed scrip that proliferated before the Tokugawa shogunate moved to suppress unauthorized private paper money issuance. The denomination — three silver bun — places it in a fractional register used for small commercial transactions in regional markets, not wholesale trade.
Hansatsu of this type are among the more fragile survivors of the Edo monetary system. The narrow strip format was standard for the genre, and paper quality varied considerably between issuers, making condition a genuine concern rather than a formality.