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3 Sen
| Issuer | Taiwan Government General |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 3 Sen |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is divided into two sections: the left portion carries a ruled table with vertical columns headed by Japanese kanji characters for account number, passbook number, name, and address, with the issuer inscription in Chinese characters reading 台灣總督府發行 (Issued by the Government General of Taiwan) at the lower left. The right section presents a stamp-like vignette framed by a perforated border, with a central shield bearing the Arabic numeral '3' and the legend 'Sen' in Latin script, flanked by chrysanthemum and floral ornaments, within a red letterpress design; kanji characters 參錢 appear to the right of the central device, and a decorative header reads 印日國帝大 at the top. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely plain, printed on unadorned cream paper with no text or vignette, save for a large unprinted circular reserve area outlined in black ink on the right half of the note, likely intended as a stamp or seal impression space. |
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The Taiwan Government-General currency notes of 1918 occupy an odd administrative niche: these were not Bank of Taiwan issues but direct government scrip, produced locally during a period when small-denomination coinage was chronically short in circulation. Sen-denomination notes of this type were a practical response to the hoarding of copper and bronze coin, a pattern repeated across Japanese-controlled territories during the First World War, when base metals were being diverted to munitions production.
Local printing at this scale was unusual for the colonial administration, which typically relied on more centralized facilities for currency production.