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New Member
Australia
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Picked the up in a folder at auction with everything from stamps to assignats, but I collect Japanese Meiji coins so the yen stood out. None of the notes I looked up had the over printing though, is this a post war thing? A re-denomination? I'd be very great full for any info...   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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These are Japanese Military Yen used in Hong Kong.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
992 Posts |
These Japanese Army notes were also overprinted in English by the British in Hong Kong in late 1945, until new notes could be printed and furnished to the Colony. Chinese and regular Japanese notes were also used.
There is one Chinese note that was overprinted in December 1941 for emergency use, just two weeks before Hong Kong fell to the Japanese.
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Valued Member
United States
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I have a few of those notes as well and found little help in catalogs. I showed them to an elderly Japanese couple and family friend, and they said the 4 large red characters are something about "for military use only" as paxbrit said, but I wasn't aware of where they were issued for. Thanks for the info, paxbrit!
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New Member
 Australia
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Thanks! I'm keeping them, but the 100 yen it doesn't quite fit the holder, are these with enough with the over printing to warrant main a special trip to get a larger holder for it?
I have a couple other over printed notes I'd be curious about amongst German notgeld and east African Bush money (also a little chillingly some mint Dutch concentration camp script).
I should compile it all into one thread, my main concern is how well I should protect it and if it's something rare enough to give some special attention.
Over prints and emergency issues are a bit of an interest to me as a history student. I'm still a coin guy but every time I see a hyperinflation note for a few dollars or revolutionary roubles at a couple dollars a piece I can't help myself.
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Valued Member
United States
137 Posts |
I've never seen the 100 yen, but I think I have the 5 and 10 yen. I'm not sure of the value, but I would just ask your local store to let you know if they find a large enough holder. I recently picked up a few 2 pocket pages for some larger German and Russian notes, so that could be another option.
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Pillar of the Community
Germany
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I'm learning Chinese and the first character on the top left is "hand" and the last one on the bottom right is "use" of the last note. I looked up the bottom left and it's "ticket". And the other is "Armed forces".
So, you have ticket hand use armed forces. Gotta love the grammar.
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Valued Member
Korea, Republic Of
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I have several of these Japanese military notes. The characters are read from right to left they are #36557;#29992;#25163;#31080;. #36557;#29992; is "military use" amd #25163;#31080; literally means "hand ticket", but is best translated as a "(bank)note". So it is a note for military use. I am not sure if it is "military use only", but if you can get me close up pics of the characters on the bottom of the front of the bill, I can tell you exactly where it was printed. You will understand more if you know where they were printed. I have Japanese, Chinese and Korean languages at your disposal, so ask away :)
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