The Banknotes of Japan
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Nippon Ginko (1885-1945)
P30c |
1 Yen
(1916) |
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| Block number 300 and higher. Images courtesy Ron Wise | |||
P39a |
5 Yen
(1930) |
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| Images courtesy Ron Wise | |||
P40a |
10 Yen
(1930) |
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| Images courtesy Ron Wise | |||
P41a |
20 Yen
(1931) |
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| Images courtesy Ron Wise | |||
P43a |
5 Yen
(1942) |
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| Images courtesy Ron Wise | |||
Nippon Ginko (1943-1945)
P49a |
1 Yen
(1943) |
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| Images courtesy Ron Wise | |||
P50a |
5 Yen
(1943) |
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| Black serial and block numbers. Images courtesy Ron Wise | |||
P51b |
10 Yen
(1944) |
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| Black serial and block numbers. Watermark = repeating characters. Images courtesy Ron Wise | |||
P52a |
5 Sen
(1944) |
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| Images courtesy Ron Wise | |||
P53a |
10 Sen
(1944) |
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| Images courtesy Ron Wise | |||
P54a |
1 Yen
(1944) |
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| Block numbers 35-47. Watermark = fancy flower design. Images courtesy Ron Wise | |||
Great Imperial Japanese Government (1938-1944)
P58a |
50 Sen
Showa year 13 (1938) |
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| Images courtesy Ron Wise | |||
P59a |
50 Sen
Showa year 17 (1942) |
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| Images courtesy Ron Wise | |||
P59b |
50 Sen
Showa year 18 (1943) |
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| Images courtesy Ron Wise | |||
P59c |
50 Sen
Showa year 19 (1944) |
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| Images courtesy Ron Wise | |||
Imperial Japanese Government (1945)
P60a |
50 Sen
Showa year 20 (1945) |
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| Images courtesy Ron Wise | |||
Japanese Government (1948)
P61b |
50 Sen
(1948) |
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| White paper. Images courtesy Ron Wise | |||
Military Currency (1945-1946)
P63 |
10 Sen
(1945) |
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| Underprint letter = B. Images courtesy Ron Wise | |||
P64 |
50 Sen
(1946) |
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| Underprint letter = A. Images courtesy Ron Wise | |||
P65 |
50 Sen
(1945) |
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| Underprint letter = B. Images courtesy Ron Wise | |||
P66 |
1 Yen
(1946) |
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| Underprint letter = A. Images courtesy Ron Wise | |||
P67a |
1 Yen
(1945) |
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| Underprint letter = B. Serial number prefix and suffix letters = A. Images courtesy Ron Wise | |||
P69a |
5 Yen
(1945) |
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| Underprint letter = B. Serial number prefix and suffix letters = A. Images courtesy Ron Wise | |||
P71 |
10 Yen
(1945) |
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| Underprint letter = B. Images courtesy Ron Wise | |||
P73 |
20 Yen
(1945) |
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| Underprint letter = B. Images courtesy Ron Wise | |||
Nippon Ginko (1945-present)
P77a |
10 Yen
(1945) |
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| Block number 1-69. With watermark. Green and grey underprint at center on front. Images courtesy Ron Wise | |||
P83 |
5 Sen
(1948) |
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| Images courtesy Ron Wise | |||
P84 |
10 Sen
(1947) |
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| Images courtesy Ron Wise | |||
P85a |
1 Yen
(1946) |
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| Images courtesy Ron Wise | |||
P86a |
5 Yen
(1946) |
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| Images courtesy Ron Wise | |||
P87a |
10 Yen
(1946) |
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| Images courtesy Ron Wise | |||
P88 |
50 Yen
(1951) |
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| Images courtesy Ron Wise | |||
P90a |
100 Yen
(1953) |
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| One serial number prefix letter. Brown paper. Images courtesy Ron Wise | |||
P90b |
100 Yen
(1953) |
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| Two serial number prefix letters. Brown paper. Images courtesy Ron Wise | |||
P90c |
100 Yen
(1953) |
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| Two serial number prefix letters. White paper. Images courtesy Ron Wise | |||
P91a |
500 Yen
(1951) |
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| One serial number prefix letter. Off-white paper. Images courtesy Ron Wise | |||
P92b |
1000 Yen
(1950) |
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| Two serial number prefix letters. Images courtesy Ron Wise | |||
P95b |
500 Yen
(1969) |
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| Two serial number prefix letters. Images courtesy Ron Wise | |||
P96b |
1000 Yen
(1963) |
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| Two-letter serial number prefix. Black serial number. Images courtesy www.CurrencyMuseum.net and a licensed under the Creative Commons: Attribution 2.5 License. | |||
P96d |
1000 Yen
(1963) |
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| Two serial number prefix letters. Blue serial number. Images courtesy Ron Wise | |||
P100e |
1000 Yen
(2001) |
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| Two serial number prefix letters. Green serial number. Printer "B". Images courtesy Ron Wise | |||
P101b |
5000 Yen
(1993) |
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| Two serial number prefix letters. Brown serial number. Printer "A". Images courtesy Ron Wise | |||
P103a |
2000 Yen
(2000) |
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| One serial number prefix letter. Images courtesy Ron Wise | |||
P103b |
2000 Yen
(2000) |
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| Two-letter serial number prefix. Black serial number. Images courtesy www.CurrencyMuseum.net and a licensed under the Creative Commons: Attribution 2.5 License. | |||
P104b |
1000 Yen
(2004) |
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| Two-letter serial number prefix. Images courtesy www.CurrencyMuseum.net and a licensed under the Creative Commons: Attribution 2.5 License. | |||
P105a |
5000 Yen
(2004) |
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| One letter serial number prefix. Images courtesy www.CurrencyMuseum.net and a licensed under the Creative Commons: Attribution 2.5 License. | |||
P106b |
10,000 Yen
(2004) |
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| Two-letter serial number prefix. Images courtesy www.CurrencyMuseum.net and a licensed under the Creative Commons: Attribution 2.5 License. | |||
Great Japanese Governemnt - Ministry of Finance / Siberia (1918)
PM15 |
50 Sen
Taisho year 7 (1918) |
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| Images courtesy Ron Wise | |||
