Tokugawa coinage

Main coins of Tokugawa coinage. A large ovoid gold Koban, under it a small gold Ichibuban, top right a silver Ichibuban, under it a silver Isshuban and a bronze round Mon.

Tokugawa coinage was a unitary and independent metallic monetary system established by shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1601 in Japan,[1] and which lasted throughout the Tokugawa period until its end in 1867.[2]

  1. ^ Kobata, A. (1965). "The Production and Uses of Gold and Silver in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Japan". The Economic History Review. 18 (2): 245–266. doi:10.2307/2592093. ISSN 0013-0117. JSTOR 2592093.
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