A Handbook for Travellers in Japan: Revised and for the Most Part Re-Written (Classic Reprint)

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The values are decimal, with the yen, or dollar, as the unit. One yen contains 100 sen or cents; one sen contains 10 rin. The currency consists of gold which is practically never seen; of silver pieces of l gen, 50 sen, 20 ‘sen, 10 sen, and 5 sen; of nickel pieces of 5 sen; of copper pieces of 2 sen, 1 seat, 5 rin, and 1 rin, but even so others issued all over feudal days representing 1; rin, 8 rin, (these are oblong pieces called etc.; and of paper money worth 20 sen, 50 sen, 1 yen, 5 yen, 10 yen, and more than a few larger sums. Mexican silver dollars circulate only at the Treaty Ports.

It is best to trip with paper money, both as a result of its superior portability, and because it is better known to the inhabitants of the interior than the silver yen. One of the most first things the tourist should do is to learn the difference between the more than a few notes for the values above-mentioned. He is advised to take with him no notes of a larger denomination than 10 yen, as it is incessantly difficult to get change except in the large towns.

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