| Slot: |
1 Yen 1916 Convertible Silver Note P30 |
| Item: |
Japan, Bank of Japan
1 Yen ND (1916) - Wmk: Leaves |
| Grade: |
PMG 65 EPQ |
| Cert #: |
1741457-006
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Owner Comments
Obverse: Portrait of Takenouchi no Sukune on right. Imperial Seal of Japan-chrysanthemum blossom (kikukamon)-top center. Western character serial #.
Reverse: One Yen coin on left.
Main colours: Black and light orange underprint.
Watermark: Leafy plant vines and vertical writing.
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| Slot: |
20 Yen 1930-31 ND Issue P41 |
| Item: |
Japan, Bank of Japan
20 Yen ND (1931) |
| Grade: |
PMG AU 55 EPQ |
| Cert #: |
8078014-003
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Owner Comments
Obverse: Imperial Seal of Japan-chrysanthemum blossom (kikukamon)-top center. Pagoda of Danzan Shrine (1532)in Sakurai-shi, Nara ken. on left. Fujiwara no Kamatari (614-669) on right.
Obverse Colors: Black on green underprint.
Reverse: Danzan Shrine (built in 678) in Sakurai-shi, Nara ken. on left. Japanese text with denomination in English.
Reverse Colors: Blue and brown
Watermark: None
Signatures: Imperial Treasury red signature seals.
Issuer: Bank of Japan (Nippon Ginko).
Date of first issue: 1931
Material: Cotton paper.
Printer: Printing Bureau of the Japanese Government (Naikaku insatsukyoku seizou
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| Slot: |
20 Sen 1917 Paper Money Issue P47 |
| Item: |
Japan, Great Imperial Japanese Government
20 Sen 1917 |
| Grade: |
PMG AU 58 |
| Cert #: |
1769681-053
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Owner Comments
Obverse Imperial Seal of Japan-chrysanthemum blossom (kikukamon)-center. Red seal at left, denomination numeral at right.
Obverse color: Black on Green underprint.
Reverse Color: Green
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| Slot: |
1 Yen 1943 ND Issue P49 |
| Item: |
Japan, Bank of Japan "SPECIMEN"
1 Yen SB146as3J ND (1943) |
| Grade: |
PMG AU 58 EPQ |
| Cert #: |
8061498-004
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Owner Comments
Obverse: Imperial Seal of Japan-chrysanthemum blossom(kikukamon)- top center. Portrait of Takeuchi no Sukune (Takenouchi no Sukune). Stylized Japanese plum blossoms (Ume). Red “Mi-hon” (Specimen) overprint
Obverse Colors: Black and brown.
Reverse: Sun symbol top center. Ube shrine (Ube Jinja) in Tottori. Red “Mi-hon” (Specimen) overprint
Reverse color: Green and light Orange Brown.
Watermark: Japanese plum blossoms Ume.
Signatures: Imperial Treasury red signature seals.
Artist: Edoardo Chiossone (1833 - 1898) (designed it in 1888).
Issuer: Bank of Japan (Nippon Ginko).
Date of first issue: 1943
Material: Cotton paper.
Printer: Printing Bureau of the Japanese Government (Naikaku insatsukyoku seizou).
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| Slot: |
10 Yen 1943 ND Issue P51 |
| Item: |
Japan, Bank of Japan "Replacement"
10 Yen SB149 RE1 ND (1943) |
| Grade: |
PMG AU 53 |
| Cert #: |
1526530-001
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Owner Comments
Obverse: Imperial Seal of Japan-chrysanthemum blossom (kikukamon)-top center. Kiji, the Green Pheasant (Phasianus versicolor), Japan's national bird. Portrait of Wake no Kiyomaro (733 - 799) on right. Replacement / Star note
Obverse Colors: Black on Brown and Light Blue underprint.
Reverse: Sun symbol top center. Goou (Gooh) Jinja Shinto tutelary shrine (center), in Kyoto, where Wake no Kiyomaro was enshrined as Chinju (Tutelary Deity of Land).
Reverse Colors: Blue
Watermark: Ten Yen" in Kanji (Japanese characters)
Signatures: Imperial Treasury red signature seals.
Issuer: Bank of Japan (Nippon Ginko).
Date of first issue: 1943-1944
Material: Cotton paper.
Printer: Printing Bureau of the Japanese Government (Naikaku insatsukyoku seizou).
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| Slot: |
50 Sen 1942 Paper Money Issue P59 |
| Item: |
Japan, Great Imperial Japanese Government
50 Sen 1942-44 - Wmk: Wavy Lines |
| Grade: |
PMG 66 EPQ |
| Cert #: |
8067075-002
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Owner Comments
Obverse:The entrance to Yasukuni Shrine (1869) Chiyoda, Tokyo. Bird in flight. Stylized Japanese plum blossoms (Ume). Imperial Seal of Japan-chrysanthemum blossom (kikukamon)-top center. Yasukuni Shrine.
Obverse Color: Black on Green and Brown underprint.
Reverse: Mount Norikura a potentially active volcano located on the borders of Gifu and Nagano prefectures
Reverse Color: Green
Watermark: Wavy lines and 50
Signatures: Treasury red seal.
Issuer: Nippon Ginko - Central Bank of Japan.
Date of first issue: 1942-1944
Material: Cotton paper.
Printer: Printing Bureau of the Imperial Japanese Government.
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| Slot: |
50 Sen 1945 Paper Money Issue P60 |
| Item: |
Japan, Great Imperial Japanese Government
50 Sen 1945 |
| Grade: |
PMG 66 EPQ |
| Cert #: |
8061930-022
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Owner Comments
Obverse: The entrance to Yasukuni Shrine (1869) Chiyoda, Tokyo. Bird in flight. Stylized Japanese plum blossoms (Ume). Imperial Seal of Japan-chrysanthemum blossom (kikukamon)-top center. Yasukuni Shrine. Showa yr. 20
Obverse Color: Black on lilac underprint.
Reverse: Mount Norikura a potentially active volcano located on the borders of Gifu and Nagano prefectures.
Reverse Color: Green
Watermark: Wavy lines.
Signatures: Treasury red signature seal.
Issuer: Nippon Ginko - Central Bank of Japan.
Date of first issue: 1945
Material: Cotton paper.
Printer: Printing Bureau of the Imperial Japanese Government. Specimen with overprint: MI-hon. Block #1.
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| Slot: |
1 Yen 1945-51 ND Issue P67 |
| Item: |
Japan / Allied Military Currency WWII
1 Yen SB263a ND (1945) - "B" in Unpt. |
| Grade: |
PMG 65 EPQ |
| Cert #: |
1780460-055
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Owner Comments
Obverse: Leafy designs.
Obverse Colors: Black, Dark Blue and light blue underprint. B in underprint.
Reverse: Leafy designs.
Reverse Colors: Dark Brown on Light Brown.
Issuer: Allied Military Command.
Date of first issue: 1945-51
Material: Cotton paper.
Usage: Following the end of World War II, the US military used a separate scrip called "A type yen" while "B type yen" were only used by the local civilians. Beginning in 1948, the A type yen was deprecated, and B type yen came to be used by military and civilians alike.
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| Slot: |
5 Yen 1945-51 ND Issue P69 |
| Item: |
Japan / Allied Military Currency WWII
5 Yen SB264a ND (1945) - "B" in Unpt. |
| Grade: |
PMG 64 |
| Cert #: |
8069875-003
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Owner Comments
Obverse: Leafy designs.
Obverse Colors: Black, Dark Blue and light blue underprint. B in underprint.
Reverse: Leafy designs.
Reverse Colors: Dark Brown on Light Brown.
Issuer: Allied Military Command.
Date of first issue: 1945-51
Material: Cotton paper.
Usage: Following the end of World War II, the US military used a separate scrip called "A type yen" while "B type yen" were only used by the local civilians. Beginning in 1948, the A type yen was deprecated, and B type yen came to be used by military and civilians alike.
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| Slot: |
10 Yen 1945 ND Issue P77 |
| Item: |
Japan, Bank of Japan
10 Yen ND (1945) - Wmk: Quatrefoil |
| Grade: |
PMG 66 EPQ |
| Cert #: |
2500361-076
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Owner Comments
Obverse: Imperial Seal of Japan-chrysanthemum blossom (kikukamon)-top center. Japan's national bird. Portrait of Wake no Kiyomaro (733 - 799) in center. Kijiji, two Green Pheasants (Phasianus versicolor) framing on each side of portrait with bouquet of cherry blossoms on bottom.
Obverse Color: Black on Gray underprint
Reverse: Sun symbol top center. Goou (Gooh) Jinja Shinto tutelary shrine (center), in Kyoto, where Wake no Kiyomaro was enshrined as Chinju (Tutelary Deity of Land).
Reverse Color: Brown
Signatures: Imperial Treasury red signature seals.
Date of first issue: 1945
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| Slot: |
100 Yen 1945 ND Issue P78A |
| Item: |
Japan, Bank of Japan
100 Yen ND (1945) - Wmk: Quatrefoil |
| Grade: |
PMG AU 55 |
| Cert #: |
1610460-011
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Owner Comments
Obverse: Imperial Seal of Japan-chrysanthemum blossom (kikukamon)-top center, surrounded by cloud and wind designed. At center is Prince Shotoku (Shotoku Taishi, February 7, 574 – April 8, 622) also known as Prince Umayado (Umayado no ojî) or Prince Kamitsumiya (Kamitsumiya no oji), was a semi-legendary regent and a politician of the Asuka period in Japan who served under Empress Shikoku. He was the son of Emperor Yomei and his consort, Princess Anahobe no Hashihito, who was also Yomei's younger half-sister. His parents were relatives of the ruling Soga clan and also he was involved in the defeat of the rival Mononobe clan. The Prince is renowned for modernizing the government administration and for promoting Buddhism in Japan. Block number 1-43.
Obverse Color: Black on Shaded gray to dull gray-green to gray underprint.
Reverse: Sun symbol top center. At center, Horyu-ji Temple, a Buddhist temple that was once one of the powerful Seven Great Temples, in Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture Japan. Its full name is Horyu Gakumonji, or Learning Temple of the Flourishing Law, the complex serving as both a seminary and monastery. The temple was founded by Prince Shotoku in 607, but according to the Nihon Shoki, in 670 all buildings were burned down by lightning. However, reconstructed at least 1,300 years ago, the Kondo (main hall) is widely recognized as the world's oldest wooden building. All within a frame of stylized flames
Reverse Color: Dark Green
Watermark: Quatrefoil
Issuer: The Japanese Government.
Date of Issue: 1945
Total issue: Unknown
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| Slot: |
1 Yen 1946-51 ND Issue P85 |
| Item: |
Japan, Bank of Japan
1 Yen SB942 ND (1946) |
| Grade: |
PMG 65 EPQ |
| Cert #: |
8059298-094
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Owner Comments
Obverse: Imperial Seal of Japan (kikukamon) - a stylised chrysanthemum blossom. Cockerel (rooster) sitting on wheat ears and corn in center. Ninomiya Sontoku (1787-1856) on right.
Obverse Colors: Black on light brown underprint.
Reverse: Sun symbol. Leafy guilloche design.
Reverse Colors: Blue
Signatures: Red signature seals.
Issuer: Bank of Japan (Nippon Ginko).
Date of issue: 19 March 1946.
Issue ceased: 1 October 1958.
Material: Cotton paper.
Printer: Printing Bureau of the Japanese Government (Naikaku insatsukyoku seizou).
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| Slot: |
10 Yen 1946-51 ND Issue P87 |
| Item: |
Japan, Bank of Japan
10 Yen SB944 ND (1946) |
| Grade: |
PMG 66 EPQ |
| Cert #: |
8059298-052
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Owner Comments
Obverse: National Diet (Parliament) building in Nagata-cho Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo on left. Imperial Seal of Japan (kikukamon) - a stylized chrysanthemum blossom on top right, Stylized cockerel (rooster) on right
Obverse Color: Black and green
Reverse: Stylized guilloche design.
Reverse Colors: Green.
Signatures: Red signature seals.
Issuer: Bank of Japan (Nippon Ginko).
Date of issue: 25 February 1946.
Ceased issue: 1 April 1955
Material: Cotton paper.
Printer: Printing Bureau of the Japanese Government (Naikaku insatsukyoku seizou).
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| Slot: |
100 Yen 1950-58 ND Issue P90 |
| Item: |
Japan, Bank of Japan
100 Yen ND (1953) - White Paper |
| Grade: |
PMG 66 EPQ |
| Cert #: |
8074014-008
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Owner Comments
Obverse: Itagaki Taisuke (21 May 1837 – 16 July 1919) was a Japanese soldier, politician and leader of the Freedoms and People’s Rights Movement (??????, Jiyu Minken Undo), which evolved into Japan's first political party. “Itagaki Taisuke was born into a middle-ranking samurai family in Tosa Domain, (present day Kochi Prefecture), After studies in Kochi and Edo, he was appointed sobayonin (councillor) to Tosa daimyo Yamauchi Toyoshige, in charge of accounts and military matters at the domain's Edo residence in 1861. He disagreed with the domain’s official policy of kobu gattai (reconciliation between the Imperial Court and the Tokugawa shogunate), in 1867–1868, he met with Saigo Takamori of the Satsuma Domain, and agreed to pledge Tosa's forces in the effort to overthrow the shogun in the upcoming Meiji Restoration. During the Boshin War, he emerged as the principal political figure from Tosa domain as a leader of the Jinshotai assault force, and claimed a place in the new Meiji government after the Tokugawa defeat.” Double letter serial number prefix.
Obverse Color: Plum violet on Grayish Pink and Olive Green and Sky Blue underprint
Reverse: National Diet Building on center right, located in Tokyo, was completed in 1936, and is constructed out of purely Japanese materials, with the exception of the stained glass, door locks, and pneumatic tube system. Sessions of the House of Representatives take place in the left wing and sessions of the House of Councillors in the right wing.
Reverse Color: Raspberry-violet
Paper: White Paper
Signatures: Red signature seals.
Issuer: Bank of Japan (Nippon Ginko).
Date of issue: 1953
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| Slot: |
500 Yen 1950-58 ND Issue P91 |
| Item: |
Japan, Bank of Japan
500 Yen ND (1951) - Cream Paper |
| Grade: |
PMG 66 EPQ |
| Cert #: |
8052637-021
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Owner Comments
Obverse: Iwakura Tomomi (October 26, 1825 – July 20, 1883) at right. “Was a Japanese statesman during the Bakumatsu and Meiji period. He was adopted by the influential Iwakura family, and became perhaps the single most influential leader of the nobility during Japan's transition from feudalism to modernity. By 1858 he was an advisor to the Emperor, but was exiled from the royal court from 1862 to 1867 for his moderation. After release he became the liaison between the court and the anti-Tokugawa movement. He played a central role in the new Meiji government after 1868. He successfully opposed aggressive policies in Korea in the crisis of 1873, and was nearly assassinated by his enemies. He led the 50-member Iwakura Mission for 18 months in Europe and America, studying modern institutions, technology, and diplomacy. The Mission promoted many the key reforms that quickly modernized Japan. He promoted a strong imperial system along Western lines, and played a central role in creating financial institutions for the new nation.”
Obverse Color: Blue on multicolor underprint.
Reverse: Mount Fuji - Fuji-san -12,388' (3,776 meters) - symbol of Japan. Sun symbol - Bank of Japan seal.
Reverse Color: Gray and pale green.
Paper: cream paper
Signatures: Red signature seals.
Issuer: Bank of Japan (Nippon Ginko).
Date of issue: 1951
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