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10 Monme With Additional Print
| Issuer | Amagasaki Domain (Japanese feudal domains) |
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| Year | 1777 |
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| Value | 10 Monme |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress in black with red and black handstamp seals and two horizontal blue stripes near the upper edge; the central vignette presents a full-length frontal figure of Daikoku standing atop two rice bales with a large treasure bag over his left shoulder, set against Takarazukushi auspicious motifs. A right-to-left inscription in kaisho (Chinese regular script) runs across the upper portion, with a tensho (seal-script) cartouche to the left, while the denomination is enclosed in a rectangular panel flanked by cloud ornaments above a seigaiha wave pattern at the base. Handstamp seals include a red oval at upper left, black circular stamps at center, and black square stamps at lower left and lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Plain black ink on an otherwise blank ground, with a vertical handwritten inscription in sōsho (Chinese cursive script) running along the central field. A black oval handstamp seal is applied at the upper right, and a green fundō-shaped (weight-form) handstamp seal appears at the middle right. |
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Amagasaki was a small fudai domain in Settsu Province held by the Toda clan, and like most han of modest size, it ran its own paper currency — hansatsu — as a practical workaround to chronic coin shortages. The 10 monme denomination places this note within the silver-unit system common to western Japanese domains, where monme weights rather than copper coin counts governed day-to-day exchange.
The "additional print" designation almost certainly refers to an overprint authorizing reissue or extending the note's validity period — a routine but telling detail. Han authorities frequently overstamped exhausted emissions rather than printing fresh paper, a sign that the domain's finances left little room for new production runs.