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50 Mon

Features

Issuer Kubota Domain (Japanese feudal domains)
Type Local banknotes
Year 1865
Value 50 Mon
Currency Mon (1862-1867)
Composition Paper (blue)
Size 120 × 30 mm
Shape Rectangular
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
568806

Obverse

Black print.
Hōju Cintāmaṇi emitting flames placed on clouds, at the top. Vertical inscriptions in Chinese regular script, on the center. Inscriptions inside Fundō motifs decorated frame at the bottom.

Scripts: Chinese (traditional, regular script), Chinese (traditional, seal script)

Lettering:
御領内
錢五拾文
通用預
田保久
會所(〇)

Translation:
Cash Fifty Mon.
Within territory, circulatable deposit.
Kubota Office.

Reverse

Black print.
Vertical inscription in Chinese seal script, reads from right to left column inside Fundō motifs decorated frame, at the top. Vertical inscriptions in Chinese regular script inside Fundō motifs decorated frame to the bottom.

Scripts: Chinese (traditional, regular script), Chinese (traditional, seal script)

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.

Comments

Modern inscriptions and romanization:

Obverse
御領内 GO-RYŌNAI
銭五十文 SEN GOJŪ-MON
通用預 TSŪYŌ AZUKARI
久保田 KUBOTA
会所 KAISHO
Reverse
慶応元 KEIŌ GAN
乙丑年 KINOTO-USHI(-DOSHI?)
大阪引替取扱 (ŌSAKA?) HIKIKAE TORIATSUKAI
加嶋屋弥十郎 (KASHIMA-YA YAJŪRŌ?)
辰巳屋欣助

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (1865) 

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