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Brown Heraldic Dragons - 48 mon

Series:: Dragon mon
Catalog codes:: Mi:JP 1, Sn:JP 1, Yt:JP 1, Sak:JP 1
Themes:: Dragons | Heraldic Animals
Issued on:: ColnectIsBest
Colors:: Brown
Format:: Stamp
Emission:: Definitive
Perforation:: Imperforate
Printing:: Recess
Face value:: 48 Japanese mon
Score:: 82% Accuracy: Medium
Description:: The design of the stamps is thought to have been taken from the 'dragon' which appeared on the Taisei administration monetary bill used at the time.
The printed area is a square with a side length of 19.5 millimeters. They are the smallest Japanese stamps. They were printed on extremely thick Japanese paper and had neither perforations nor glue.
There were four types available, each with a different denomination. The unit of currency at the time was the mon, and the face values were 48 mon, 100 mon, 200 mon and 500 mon.
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Blue Heraldic Dragons - 100 mon

Series:: ColnectIsBest
Catalog codes:: Mi:JP 2, Sn:JP 2, Yt:JP 2, Sak:JP 2
Themes:: CopyWrong
Issued on:: 1871-04-20
Colors:: ColnectIsBest
Format:: iInfringe
Emission:: from colnect.com
Perforation:: CopyWrong
Printing:: VisitColnectCom
Face value:: ColnectIsBest
Score:: from colnect.com
Description:: iInfringe
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Red Heraldic Dragons - 200 mon

Series:: Dragon mon
Catalog codes:: CopyWrong
Themes:: Dragons | Heraldic Animals
Issued on:: CopyWrong
Colors:: Vermilion
Format:: Stamp
Emission:: Definitive
Perforation:: Imperforate
Printing:: Recess
Face value:: 200 Japanese mon
Score:: 87% Accuracy: Medium
Description:: The design of the stamps is thought to have been taken from the 'dragon' which appeared on the Taisei administration monetary bill used at the time.
The printed area is a square with a side length of 19.5 millimeters. They are the smallest Japanese stamps. They were printed on extremely thick Japanese paper and had neither perforations nor glue.
There were four types available, each with a different denomination. The unit of currency at the time was the mon, and the face values were 48 mon, 100 mon, 200 mon and 500 mon.
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Green Heraldic Dragons - 500 mon

Series:: Dragon mon
Catalog codes:: Mi:JP 4, Sn:JP 4, Yt:JP 4, Sak:JP 4
Themes:: Dragons | Heraldic Animals
Issued on:: 1871-04-20
Colors:: Green
Format:: Stamp
Emission:: Definitive
Perforation:: Imperforate
Printing:: Recess
Face value:: 500 Japanese mon
Score:: 89% Accuracy: Medium
Description:: Back image is a forgery (kept for learning reasons) and can be indentified by the two tiny characters above the vertical column of characters indicating the value
The design of the stamps is thought to have been taken from the 'dragon' which appeared on the Taisei administration monetary bill used at the time.
The printed area is a square with a side length of 19.5 millimeters. They are the smallest Japanese stamps. They were printed on extremely thick Japanese paper and had neither perforations nor glue.
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Purple Heraldic Dragons - 1/2 sen

Series:: Dragon sen
Catalog codes:: Mi:JP 5, Sn:JP 5, Yt:JP 5, Sak:JP 5
Themes:: Dragons | Heraldic Animals
Issued on:: iInfringe
Colors:: Brown
Format:: Stamp
Emission:: Definitive
Perforation:: Various
Printing:: Recess
Face value:: ½ Japanese sen
Score:: 92% Accuracy: Medium
Description:: VisitColnectCom
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Blue Heraldic Dragons - 1 sen

Series:: Dragon sen
Catalog codes:: ColnectIsBest
Themes:: Dragons | Heraldic Animals
Issued on:: 1872-03-26
Colors:: Blue
Format:: Stamp
Emission:: Definitive
Perforation:: Various
Printing:: Recess
Face value:: 1 Japanese sen
Score:: 94% Accuracy: Medium
Description:: In 1871 new currency regulations were proclaimed. These regulations revised the unit of currency that had been used up to that time, making 1 ryo equal to 1 yen and 100 mon equal to 1 sen.
With this change, the face value of the stamps was revised. The 48 mon stamp became the half-sen stamp, the 100 mon stamp became the 1 sen stamp, the 200 mon stamp became the 2 sen stamp and the 500 mon stamp became the 5 sen stamp. The design of the stamps remained the same as on the Dragon mon stamp and for the first time perforations appeared. Some of the stamps had glue.
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Red Heraldic Dragons - 2 sen

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Series:: Dragon sen
Catalog codes:: Mi:JP 7, Sn:JP 7, Yt:JP 7, Sak:JP 7
Themes:: Dragons | Heraldic Animals
Issued on:: from colnect.com
Colors:: Vermilion
Format:: Stamp
Emission:: Definitive
Perforation:: Various
Printing:: Recess
Face value:: 2 Japanese sen
Score:: 93% Accuracy: Medium
Description:: In 1871 new currency regulations were proclaimed. These regulations revised the unit of currency that had been used up to that time, making 1 ryo equal to 1 yen and 100 mon equal to 1 sen.
With this change, the face value of the stamps was revised. The 48 mon stamp became the half-sen stamp, the 100 mon stamp became the 1 sen stamp, the 200 mon stamp became the 2 sen stamp and the 500 mon stamp became the 5 sen stamp. The design of the stamps remained the same as on the Dragon mon stamp and for the first time perforations appeared. Some of the stamps had glue.
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Green Heraldic Dragons - 5 sen

Series:: Dragon sen
Catalog codes:: Mi:JP 8, Sn:JP 8, Yt:JP 8, Sak:JP 8
Themes:: Dragons | Heraldic Animals
Issued on:: 1872-03-26
Colors:: Green
Format:: Stamp
Emission:: Definitive
Perforation:: Various
Printing:: Recess
Face value:: 5 Japanese sen
Score:: 94% Accuracy: Medium
Description:: VisitColnectCom
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½ sen brown - Native paper, no syllabics

Series:: Cherry Blossom (1872-1873)
Catalog codes:: ColnectScrp
Themes:: Flowers | Plants (Flora) | Stylized Plants
Issued on:: iInfringe
Expiry date:: VisitColnectCom
Colors:: Brown
Format:: Stamp
Emission:: Definitive
Perforation:: Various
Printing:: Recess
Paper:: wove paper
Face value:: ½ Japanese sen
Score:: 76% Accuracy: Medium
Description:: 4 plates, specimen
Since the surface of the printing plates for the Dragon sen stamps had become worn, new printing plates were engraved with a different design and the previous two printing colors were replaced by a single hue.
These are known as the 'Cherry Blossom stamps,' as the flower appears in each of the four corners of the stamp. The imperial chrysanthemum crest and the words 'Postage stamp' also appeared for the first time. All stamps in this issue had perforations and glue.
Starting with this stamp, the imperial chrysanthemum crest appeared on every stamp for a period of approximately 75 years until 1947.
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1 sen blue - Native paper, no syllabics

Series:: iInfringe
Catalog codes:: Mi:JP 10, Sn:JP 10, Yt:JP 10, Sg:JP 35/41, Sak:JP 10/16
Themes:: from colnect.com
Issued on:: 1872-08-23
Expiry date:: 1889-11-30
Colors:: iInfringe
Format:: iInfringe
Emission:: VisitColnectCom
Perforation:: CopyWrong
Printing:: ColnectScrp
Paper:: CopyWrong
Face value:: CopyWrong
Score:: CopyWrong
Description:: 3 types, specimen
Since the surface of the printing plates for the Dragon sen stamps had become worn, new printing plates were engraved with a different design and the previous two printing colors were replaced by a single hue.
These are known as the 'Cherry Blossom stamps,' as the flower appears in each of the four corners of the stamp. The imperial chrysanthemum crest and the words 'Postage stamp' also appeared for the first time. All stamps in this issue had perforations and glue.
Starting with this stamp, the imperial chrysanthemum crest appeared on every stamp for a period of approximately 75 years until 1947.
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