Japanese silver monme / ginme accounting
- Dates in use
- Introduction uncertain; ended 1868
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The story
Early-modern Japanese monetary accounting comprised independent gold, silver and cash units. Silver accounts reckoned 1000 monme perkan and 10 fun permonme. [1]
Osaka merchants continued pricing goods and making loans in monme/ginme even after monme silver coins largely disappeared from circulation. [2]
Silver-account lending was forbidden and converted to gold/cash accounts, with gold-denominated government notes subsequently specified. Gold ryo reckoning thus received the silver account branch. Regional historical absorption, not founding unit of ryo. [3]
Replacement by an existing currency
This conversion belongs to the history of the retiring unit. It does not make that unit an ancestor of the currency adopted.
Sources and evidence
- Noburu Kobayashi · Noburu Kobayashi, 近世・近代日本貨幣史の基礎的研究, BOJ Currency Museum 2017
- BOJ Currency Museum permanent exhibition catalogue · BOJ Currency Museum permanent exhibition catalogue
- Noburu Kobayashi · Noburu Kobayashi, 近世・近代日本貨幣史の基礎的研究, BOJ Currency Museum 2017
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“Japanese silver monme / ginme accounting.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Updated 2026-10-13; data version v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/CUR-V26-JPN-GINME.html