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Message:: [QUOTE="ewomack, post: 8371371, member: 15588"]As others have already said, it's a Japanese 10 Sen note from 1944. "日本" means "Japan" and 日本銀行 means "Bank of Japan." That era's equivalent of these characters appear in reverse order at obverse top center, vertically at obverse right and across the top center of the reverse. The large characters on the obverse bottom right of center read "ten sen" and use a now antiquated Kanji for "ten." The character for "Sen" is 銭, the first character shown. These small Japanese notes arguably represent the equivalent of the much earlier US fractional currency. The now obsolete Sen was worth 1/100th of a Yen and functioned a lot like the US Cent before the Yen became the only unit of Japanese currency not long after WWII. Coins of similar denominations existed in tin and aluminum and the issuing of extra notes could have provided help with saving heavier metals for warfare. I have a 50 Sen note from the same series and year, 1944 (below). I really like these notes because of their colors and designs, but they don't usually have much value, unfortunately. For example, I paid only $3.50 US for the 50 Sen note and it's in pretty decent shape. Examples of the 10 Sen can run anywhere from $1.00 US to $10.00 US. It's still a great note in any case. [ATTACH=full]1485515[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1485516[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]