Japan
10 Yen
ND (1930)
Pick 40z
*With Propaganda Overprint in Red*
Catalog Value: $20.00 in VG
Hello all! Still trying to pick up the pace a little, and still running a little behind. Some of my family members have been in the hospital, and work has been a little crazy, so my posts have been a little late! But I'm still posting what is supposed to be posted! So stay tuned!
So this note is another note that I bought for 50 cents! It had an overprint on it and it caught my eye, so I had to purchase it! It actually a very nicely detailed note and the front has a portrait of Wake-no Kiyomaro who in Japan, was regarded as the one who helped keep Buddhism from being involved in Politics; the Japanese creator of the Establishment Clause per se. His face has been on many Japanese 10 Yen notes since the 1880's up until the late 1940's. The 4 characters in red on the front and back are interpreted as Military Payment Certificate. This note was made for Japanese Servicemen in Occupied China. My grandfather (who can read Japanese, Chinese and Korean), told me that when he was in his teens living in Japanese Occupied Korea, men in the military would receive 4 of these per month in Korea. He really didn't tell me what the other characters were saying (because he was occupied with watching the news) but I'll have to ask him later I guess. These payment certificates were valid throughout the Japanese Empire at par with the Japanese Yen. 10 Yen was quite a bit of money in those days!
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