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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gxseries, post: 1797137, member: 4373&quot;]I haven&#039;t been actively collecting banknotes but have a small stash of them hiding somewhere. I came across them recently as I have been cleaning up and decided to scan them.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This is one of them:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://banknotebank.com/notes/940815A.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://banknotebank.com/notes/940815B.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Released more than 100 years ago around 1885, it features Daikoku at right sitting on rice bales. In Japan, he&#039;s better known as the God of wealth. More information can be found here: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daikoku-ten" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daikoku-ten" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daikoku-ten</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>As of why I got this - last year I visited Japan and saw this. This is not my photo: <a href="http://muza-chan.net/japan/index.php/blog/daikokuten-magical-hammer" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://muza-chan.net/japan/index.php/blog/daikokuten-magical-hammer" rel="nofollow">http://muza-chan.net/japan/index.php/blog/daikokuten-magical-hammer</a> I&#039;m pretty certain you weren&#039;t allowed photography in this area...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The saying is if you rub his belly, you might rub some of his fortune onto yourself. Well I don&#039;t know if that ever happened but though it was pretty neat to have a banknote that features something that you checked out.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>But again, I don&#039;t know how old this statue is. Could be a few decades old, century old or just a few years as it might get repainted over a few years. Nevertheless, it&#039;s the oldest banknote in my collection right now. I don&#039;t think it is a common banknote even in this condition.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Back to imaging the massive hoard of banknotes and coins that I have... just too many to process! (I&#039;m running out of time to even work on my website for starters!)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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