1 Yen

Features

Issuer	Japan
Issuing bank	Bank of Japan (日本銀行)
Emperor	Shōwa (1926-1989)
Type	Standard circulation banknotes
Year	1946
Value	1 Yen 1 JPY = USD 0.0063
Currency	Yen (1871-date)
Composition	Paper
Size	124 × 68 mm
Shape	Rectangular
Issued	19 March 1946
Number	N# 207870
References	P# 85 Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes). , JNDA# 11-67 Japan Numismatic Dealers Association (publisher). 日本貨幣カタログ. Japan Numismatic Dealers Association, Tokyo, Japan (37 volumes).

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Obverse

Black on light brown underprint.
Rooster in a heap of maiz and wheat at lower center, portrait Ninomiya Sontoku at right.

Lettering:
1|YEN　　　　　170622　　壹
　　　　　券行銀本日
　　日　　　圓壹
　　本　　　　
　　銀
　　行
長券発　之総
　局　　印裁　　
1　　　　　　1　　　　　圓壹

Translation:
1
Bank of Japan note
One yen
Bank of Japan
Director-General of the Currency Issue Department
Seal of the Governor
One yen

Reverse

Blue. Lettering in guilloche with decorative ornaments.

Lettering:
　　券行銀本日
1 　　圓壹　　1
　　　1YEN

Translation:
Bank of Japan
One yen

Comments

Issue suspended on October 1, 1958.

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Date	G	VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC	References		Frequency
Undetermined
ND (1946)	$ 0.92	$ 0.98	$ 1.40	$ 2.30	$ 2.30	$ 2.90	$ 3.50	P# 85a Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).		93%
ND (1946)								P# 85s Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).	specimen with 見本 overprint, SPECIMEN on back	0.08%

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