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1 Yen British Commonwealth Occupation Force
| Issuer | Australian Army Canteen Service |
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| Year | 1947 |
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| Currency | Yen (1871-date) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress in black on a red guilloche underprint. The Australian coat of arms appears as a central underprint device. Inscriptions identify the issuer and denomination. |
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| Obverse lettering | AUSTRALIAN ARMY CANTEEN SERVICE B.C.O.F. One Yen Miller, Melb. |
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The British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) arrived in Japan in early 1946 to oversee the Allied occupation alongside American forces. Australia contributed the largest non-American contingent, and the Australian Army Canteen Service issued its own scrip to restrict spending to authorized facilities and keep occupation personnel out of the civilian Japanese economy — a policy driven partly by concern over black market activity and currency manipulation.
Miller, Freeman & Co. of Melbourne handled the print run. The paper is notably thin by Australian commercial printing standards of the period, and the notes are prone to horizontal fold breaks along the center — a condition issue collectors encounter frequently with this series.