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1/2 Shu Takayama Prefecture Note
| Issuer | Takayama Prefecture |
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| Year | 1869 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | Plain or lightly printed reverse consistent with mid-Meiji period local currency issues, bearing authentication text or decorative border elements in keeping with the conventions of Takayama Prefecture scrip of 1869. |
| Reverse lettering | NATIONALE BANK 50 BRUSSEL 50 VIJFTIG FRANKEN BETAALBAAR OP ZICHT H. HENDRICKX DEL. INV. ALBERT DOMS SC (Translation: National Bank Brussels Fifty Francs Payable at sight) |
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Takayama Prefecture had one of the shortest administrative existences in modern Japanese history — established in 1868, it was abolished and absorbed into Chikuma Prefecture in 1871. The notes it issued during that window fall into a category of hyper-local Meiji transitional currency, printed during the chaotic period when the new government was simultaneously dismantling the old domain monetary system and attempting to impose centralized control over paper issue.
The 1/2 shu denomination is among the smallest fractional values in this series, suggesting it was intended for everyday small transactions during a period when metallic coinage was genuinely scarce in the mountainous Hida region.