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10 Yen
| Issuer | Dai-Ichi Ginko Ltd. (First National Bank) |
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| Year | 1908 |
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| In circulation to | 1909 |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black on white paper with red overprint characters 見本 (specimen). At centre, large vertical Chinese/Korean characters reading 拾圓 (Ten Yen) flanked by vertical text columns. A circular guilloche underprint field occupies the left, while a vignette on the right portrays a traditional East Asian pavilion set within a garden landscape. The upper border carries the issuer's name in Chinese characters within an ornate floral frame, with denomination characters 拾 repeated in the upper corners. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in brown with an English-language letterpress layout on a fine guilloche underprint. The issuer's name DAI-ICHI GINKO LIMITED arches across the upper portion in bold serif type, below which the promise clause reads Promises to Pay the Bearer on Demand TEN YEN IN JAPANESE CURRENCY AT ANY OF ITS BRANCHES IN COREA. A large numeral 10 occupies the left within an ornate cartouche, a blank oval reserve for serial number or stamp appears at centre-right, and a rectangular panel of Chinese/Japanese text is positioned at lower right. A red specimen overprint 見本 is applied diagonally across the centre. |
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Dai-Ichi Ginko — Japan's First National Bank — operated in Korea under a quasi-central bank mandate before the Bank of Korea was formally established. This note circulated in Korea, not Japan proper, during a period when Tokyo was consolidating financial control over the peninsula ahead of formal annexation in 1910. The bank effectively functioned as a colonial monetary authority, issuing currency that displaced existing Korean instruments.
ABNC's New York engraving is characteristic of the firm's East Asian commissions from that period — high-quality intaglio work contracted out because no domestic Japanese printer could yet match the security printing standard required.