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The Kan'ei Tsūhō (Kyūjitai: 寛永通寳; Shinjitai: 寛永通宝) was a Japanese mon coin in use from 1626 until 1868 during the Edo period.In 1636, the Kan'ei Tsūhō coin was introduced by the Tokugawa shogunate to standardise and maintain a sufficient supply of copper coinage, and it was the first government-minted copper coin in 700 years.
The Kōchōsen Japanese system of coinage became strongly debased, with its metallic content and value decreasing. By the middle of the 9th century, the value of a coin in rice had fallen to 1/150th of its value of the early 8th century. [13]
In 760, a reform was put in place, in which a new copper coin called Man'nen Tsūhō (萬年通寳) was worth 10 times the value of the former Wadōkaichin, with also a new silver coin named Taihei Genpō (大平元寶) with a value of 10 copper coins, as well as a new gold coin named Kaiki Shoho (開基勝寶) with a value of 10 silver coins.
In the Edo period of Japan (1615-1868), stringed together coins received a small discount when presented like this. For example, for 100 Mon payment: if those 1 Mon coins were all tied in a row, discount given was 4 mon, so 96 stringed coins of 1 mon were accepted at par with 100 mon. Similar discounts existed probably for other bulk payments ...
Ball shaped nuggets used in Western Japan c.1736. Before the Meiwa period, Japan as a whole had previously been divided when it came to high-value transactions. While Koban and Ichibuban were commonly used in the East, in Western Japan coins were made up of ball and bar-shaped silver nuggets. The unstable and variable exchange rates between ...
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Scrip of Edo period Japan; Shu (gold coin) Shu (silver coin) String of cash coins (currency unit)
These were the thinnest gold coins of the Edo period weighing just 0.75 grams each with an alloy of: 22.9% gold, 76.7% silver, and 0.3% other miscellaneous material. Man'en Ni Shuban coins circulated until the end of September 1874 when they were replaced by the newly adopted yen.
The Tenpō Tsūhō (Japanese: 天保通宝; kyūjitai: 天保通寳 or 天保通寶) was an Edo period coin with a face value of 100 mon, originally cast in the 6th year of the Tenpō era (1835). [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The obverse of the coin reads "Tenpō" ( 天保 ) a reference to the era this coin was designed in, and "Tsūhō" ( 通寳 ) which means ...