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100 Mun
| Issuer | Keijo-Pusan Railway Company |
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| Year | 1900 |
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| Reference(s) | P#102 |
| Obverse description | Vertically oriented note printed in brown on cream paper. A central vignette at the top encloses a landscape scene within a decorative cloud-shaped cartouche, flanked by ornamental corner devices. Large Chinese characters reading 百文 (100 Mun) occupy the central field, with vertical columns of Korean and Japanese text running along both lateral margins and a circular seal impression to the lower center. |
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| Obverse lettering | 百文 |
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The Keijo-Pusan Railway Company — operating the Seoul-to-Busan line under Japanese colonial administration — issued scrip notes like this one to handle small transactions along the route, where conventional coin was chronically scarce. The "Keijo" rendering of Seoul dates this squarely within the Japanese-administered naming conventions imposed after 1876's forced opening of Korean ports, well before formal annexation in 1910.
Private railway scrip from this period in Korea is exceptionally rare in any surviving form. Most was redeemed or simply discarded as the line's financial operations were absorbed into larger colonial infrastructure frameworks in the early 1900s.