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2 Rin Overstamped 50 Mon
| Issuer | Kaga Domain (Japanese feudal domains) |
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| Year | 1870 |
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| Currency | Mon (683-1953) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black ink with applied red and black official stamps; a rectangular red seal in Chinese seal script (篆書) appears vertically with the Ministry of Finance overstamp reading 大藏省改, while cursive-script (草書) vertical inscriptions occupy the upper centre field. A central cartouche enclosed within a rounded rectangular border presents text in regular script (楷書) set against a vignette of a coastal seascape, with additional official seals bearing seal-script legends scattered across the face. |
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| Obverse lettering | 貮厘 大藏 省改 (Translation: Two Rin Ministry of Finance) |
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Kaga Domain — one of the wealthiest outside the Tokugawa shogunate, administered by the Maeda clan — issued these notes as part of the chaotic monetary adjustment that followed the Meiji Restoration. The "2 Rin" overstamp on existing 50 Mon notes reflects the 1870 revaluation that converted the old Mon-based coinage and domain scrip into the new decimal Yen system, where 1 Yen equaled 1,000 Rin. The conversion math was deliberately conservative, effectively discounting holders of old domain paper.
Kaga's domain currency was formally abolished shortly after as the new government moved to suppress all han-issued scrip by 1871.