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10 Sen
| Issuer | Bank of Chōsen |
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| Year | 1914-1919 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Obverse printed in greenish-gray on thin rice paper, with the issuer's title 朝鮮銀行 (Bank of Chōsen) and denomination 10 錢 inscribed in Chinese characters, accompanied by a red seal impression. The design incorporates guilloche underprint work typical of Japanese Government Printing Bureau output of the period. The printer's imprint 大日本帝國印刷局 appears in the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | the Bank of Chosen TEN SEN 10 |
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The Bank of Chōsen — Korea's colonial central bank, established by Japan in 1909 to replace the Dai-Ichi Bank's note-issuing function — began circulating fractional sen notes partly to address the chronic shortage of small coinage in the peninsula. The 10 Sen note filled a gap that metal currency couldn't reliably cover given the logistical demands of supplying a colonial territory during wartime economic strain.
Printed by the Japanese Government Printing Bureau in Tokyo, the notes were produced to tight metropolitan standards. TBB#408 covers the full five-year window of this type, meaning date variants within the series require careful verification against the Japanese Imperial year notation printed on each note.