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10 Yen Provisional issues with adhesive stamps
| Issuer | Bank of Japan |
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| Year | 1946 |
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| Value | 10 Yen (10 JPY) |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Wake no Kiyomaro in traditional court attire at right, set against an intricate guilloche underprint with a large numeral '10' medallion at left. A red official seal appears in the lower centre, with the imperial chrysanthemum crest at upper centre, and a small rectangular adhesive validation stamp affixed at upper right. The vertical inscriptions in kanji identify the Bank of Japan and the denomination, with serial number and block letter printed in the upper and lower margins. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of the Goou Jinja Shinto Shrine rendered in fine intaglio, flanked symmetrically by two large kanji character medallions reading 'juu' (ten) within elaborate floral guilloche rosettes. The imperial chrysanthemum crest appears at top centre above the shrine, with corner numerals '10' repeated in each quadrant and a red validation seal at lower centre. The overall design is executed in brown tones with a lighter guilloche underprint. |
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Japan's postwar currency reform of March 1946 moved fast. The government froze bank accounts and imposed strict withdrawal limits, forcing the Bank of Japan to release new low-denomination notes before adequate printing capacity could produce them in sufficient volume. The solution was pragmatic and ugly: existing 10 Yen wartime notes were overprinted with adhesive stamps to validate them under the new regime, distinguishing "new yen" from the old frozen currency.
The stamps were applied by hand at financial institutions, and adhesion quality varies considerably — detached or partially lifted stamps are among the most common condition problems with this type. Pick 79 is the adhesive-stamp variant specifically; the underlying note it validates dates from an earlier wartime printing run by the same Cabinet bureau.