Howdy, How is everyone doing? its been a while since my last post. Well on Saturday I took a trip to Temple and on the way back home I went the back way through the country side and passed a few small towns on the way and I stop at a Antique Mall and was just browsing and found 1 banknote (Japanese) and 2 coins which one is an Irish km11 1 Penny 1964 and the other one is a Romanian km19 5 Bani 1884 (which would mean that I now have 4 coins from the 1800's. Well anyways I wanted to know if anyone could tell me more about this banknote because the only information I have been able to get is that the guy on the banknote is Prince Shōtoku (also known as Prince Umayado) or maybe I could be wrong. Here are the scanned images: Front: Larger Size Back: Larger Size Thanks to anyone who can help.
Nice looking note. I am afraid i dont have much info about it to offer at the moment. Hopefully someone will wonder in who can good luck!
You have a very nice example of a ¥100 military note of what the Japanese refer to as "the China Japanese Incident", and the rest of the world calls the Second Sino-Japanese War, which began in July, 1937 and merged into World War II. The Japanese don't call it a "war", because neither side ever formally made a declaration of war. According to a Wikipeia article, there were 3,220,000 military casualties (including wounded, prisoners and missing) in this "incident". Listed as #13-54 in the JNDA catalog, it is valued between ¥100-400 ($1.12-4.48).
BTW Prince Shotoku is an interesting personality, born in either 673 or 674 depending upon which authority you refer to, and subsequently Imperial Regent. One source reports that: His name literally means "Prince of the Stable". At least one historian has argued that he was an entirely mythical person, who never really existed.
Thanks for all the great information. After reading the price that hontonai posted I think I got it at a great price since it was originally priced at $2.00 but since the whole Antique Mall was having a 1/2 sale (50% off) I got the note for about a buck and for the Irish coin it was priced at $2.00 and the Romanian coin was priced at $1.00 so all in all I payed only $2.71 for the lot. Thanks again everyone.
