1000 Yen US Military Currency - B-Note

Features

Issuer Japan
Type Standard banknote
Year 1951
Value 1000 Yen (1000 JPY)
Currency Yen (1871-date)
Composition Paper
Size 155 × 66 mm
Shape Rectangular
Demonetized 15 May 1958
Number
N#
203404
References P# 76,
Tracy L. Schmidt (editor); 2019. Standard Catalog of World Paper Money. Modern issues 1961-present (25th edition). Krause Publications, Iola, Wisconsin, United States.
And 2 more volumes.
JNDA# 14-8
Japan Numismatic Dealers Association (editor); 2023. 日本貨幣カタログ = The Catalog of Japanese Currency. Self-published, Tokyo, Japan.

Obverse

Black on light blue underprint and black text, large B in underprint.

Scripts: Chinese, Latin

Lettering:
千        軍票
 SERIES 100   B     1000
         ONE
        THOUSAND
A 088028 A  圓 千
          YEN   A 088028 A
       B   SERIES 100
1000           千           

   MILITARY CURRENCY

Translation:
1000 Military currency
1000 yen
1000

Reverse

Brown. Big ornament.

Scripts: Chinese, Hiragana, Latin

Lettering:
ISSUED PURSUANT TO
MILITARY PROCLAMATION

す行發き基に告布事軍

Translation: Issued pursuant to military proclamation

Comments

Initially printed in the U.S.A., subsequently printed in Japan.
Notes with B underprint were legal tender for Japanese citizens from September 1945 until July 1948.
B yen were used in Okinawa until 1958.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (1951)  P-76a; Block letters A, B
ND (1951)  P-76b; Block letters C, D
ND (1951)  P-76c; Block letters E

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