5 Monme

Niimi Domain occupied a modest territory in Bitchu Province (present-day Okayama Prefecture), and like scores of other small han during the Edo period, it issued its own paper currency — hansatsu — to manage local financial obligations outside the Tokugawa bakufu's metallic money system. These domain notes were not legal tender beyond the issuing lord's territory. A merchant crossing the border carried worthless paper.

1730 places this note squarely in a period when many domains were quietly insolvent, issuing hansatsu partly to defer real payments in silver or gold. The 5 monme denomination is expressed in silver weight — monme being a unit of the silver-based accounting system — though actual silver redemption was frequently theoretical rather than guaranteed.