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3 Silver Monme private issue, Oono-gumi
| Issuer | Oono-gumi (Kaga Domain) |
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| Year | 1869 |
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| Value | 3 Silver Monme |
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| Obverse lettering | 銀 三 匁 分 代諸 銀物 預品 切農 手商 (Translation: Three monme of silver Various things and goods charge a silver deposit Agriculture and commerce stamp) |
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| Reverse lettering | 巳己治明 大 野 組 橋杉平萩 下山野原 弥利助宗 兵三 一衛郎平 (Translation: Meiji yīn earth snake. Oono-gumi. Sohei Hagiwara. Sukesaburo Hirano. Toshibei Sugiyama. Yaichi Hashishita.) |
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Oono-gumi was a merchant consortium operating under the authority of Kaga Domain — one of the wealthiest han outside Tokugawa direct control — and issued silver-denominated scrip to facilitate trade in the domain's extensive commercial networks. By 1869, the Meiji government had already begun the process of abolishing domain currencies, making this issue a creature of a dying monetary order. Notes like this were redeemable in silver monme, the traditional weight-based unit, even as reformers in Tokyo were pushing toward a decimal yen system that would formally arrive three years later.
Private merchant-house issues from Kaga are considerably less documented than official han札 (hansatsu), and attribution to specific gumi can be difficult to verify from surviving records.