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200 Mon
| Issuer | Morioka Domain (Japanese feudal domains) |
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| Year | 1835 |
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| Value | 200 Mon |
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| Obverse lettering | 手切岡盛 米四升代 錢 貮 百 文 時之相塲 藏元改 (Translation: Morioka bill Rice four Masu substitute Cash two hundred Mon Market price that time Kuramoto examined) |
| Reverse description | Black letterpress print with green overstamp; the upper register bears vertical inscriptions within a Fundō-shaped cartouche set against a cloud-pattern background, with two square seals in Chinese seal script positioned immediately below in the upper-centre field. The lower register carries vertical inscriptions in Chinese regular script, with a green circular stamp applied over the central area. |
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Morioka Domain, administered by the Nambu clan in what is now Iwate Prefecture, issued domain notes (hansatsu) as a practical workaround to chronic specie shortages that plagued many of the Tokugawa-period domains. The 200 mon denomination sits at an unusually high face value for hansatsu of this period, suggesting it was intended for larger merchant transactions rather than everyday exchange. These notes were legally valid only within the issuing domain's borders — a structural feature that simultaneously protected the local economy and made counterfeiting less rewarding to outsiders.
The extreme narrow format was entirely deliberate: hansatsu were designed to be folded lengthwise and carried in a small purse or tucked into the obi.