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100 Yen
| Issuer | Bank of Chosen |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Currency | Japanese Protectorate - Yen (1910-1945) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette with a portrait of Kim Yoon-shik in traditional Korean dress, with the denomination printed in the centre of the note. The design is framed by intricate guilloche patterns and decorative borders typical of the Bank of Chosen issue. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in rose-red tones with an overall decorative guilloche underprint. A large stylised floral rosette occupies the right side, while cherry blossom branches frame the left. The central panel bears the denomination in Chinese characters (百圓), with the numeral 100 appearing in the upper corners and the issuer's name in Chinese characters (朝鮮銀行) across the top centre. A further denomination inscription appears in a cartouche at the lower centre. |
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The Bank of Chōsen — Japan's colonial central bank for Korea — issued this note in the final year of the Pacific War, when the Japanese government was financing military operations through aggressive currency expansion across its occupied territories. Notes printed in 1945 were often released into circulation under conditions of severe inflation and supply disruption, making orderly redemption after Japan's August surrender essentially impossible.
Post-liberation, these notes were rendered inconvertible almost immediately. Many were simply abandoned or destroyed, which counterintuitively affects survivor populations in both directions — some denominations are scarce, others flooded out of Korean hoards decades later.