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300 Mon
| Issuer | Morioka Domain (Japanese feudal domains) |
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| Year | 1835 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse lettering | 手切岡盛 米六升代 錢 三 百 文 時之相塲 藏元改 (Translation: Morioka bill Rice six Masu substitute Three hundred Mon Market price that time Kuramoto examined) |
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| Reverse lettering | 六 天 通 寳 年 保 〇會 〇〇 印〇 〇錢 引 替 會 所 木思山房復刻 (Translation: Tenpō 6th year Currency Exchange office) |
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Morioka Domain, in the far north of Honshu under the Nanbu clan, issued hansatsu — domain paper currency — as a practical workaround to chronic silver shortages that afflicted many outer domains throughout the late Edo period. This 300 mon denomination is on the heavier end of the mon-denominated hansatsu range, suggesting it was intended for merchant transactions rather than small daily exchange.
Hansatsu were legally restricted to circulation within the issuing domain's borders, a rule frequently ignored in commercial practice near domain boundaries.