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50 Sen 'Fuji-Sakura'
| Issuer | Japanese Government (大日本帝國) |
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| Year | 1938 |
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| Value | 50 Sen (0.50 JPY) |
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| Reverse description | Entirely typographic and guilloche design printed in olive-green on cream paper, with no pictorial vignette. A large central lozenge-shaped guilloche panel carries the vertical kanji inscription 五拾銭 and is flanked by two circular rosette guilloche medallions each containing the numeral 50. Decorative wave and scallop guilloche border bands run along the full width of the top and bottom edges. |
| Reverse lettering | 五拾銭 50 50 |
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The 1938 Japanese wartime sen denominations were printed domestically by the Cabinet Printing Bureau as Japan's military expenditures strained the currency supply — the light paper and simplified intaglio work on this series reflect deliberate production economies made under those pressures. The Bureau was already being tasked with printing occupation scrip for China and Manchuria alongside domestic issues, and the workload showed.
Sen-denomination notes had largely been a rarity in Japanese daily life before the late 1930s; coin shortages driven by wartime metal requisitions pushed paper into fractional use for the first time at scale.