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10 Yen
| Issuer | Bank of Chosen (朝鮮銀行) |
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| Year | 1932-1945 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a portrait of Kim Yoon-shik in traditional Korean dress, with the denomination rendered in Chinese characters at centre. The design is framed by guilloche scrollwork and carries the bank title in kanji script. |
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| Obverse lettering | 券行銀鮮朝 行銀鮮朝 拾 圓 (Translation: Banknote of the Chosen Bank, Bank of Chosen, Ten Yen) |
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The Bank of Chosen — nominally a central bank but functionally an instrument of Japanese colonial finance — issued this series continuously from 1932 through the final weeks of the Pacific War. Chosen Bank notes circulated not only in Korea but across Manchuria and parts of occupied China, where the bank operated branch networks that effectively shadowed Japanese military expansion.
After Japan's surrender in August 1945, Soviet forces entering northern Korea and Chinese nationalist authorities both voided these notes at different rates and on different schedules, leaving holders in the south in particular limbo until U.S. Military Government currency policies took effect.