Japanese mon
Japanese mon: a historical unit of account.
- Dates in use
- Introduction and ending not established
- Ancestry branch
- See family connections
Where this money came from
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This currency also received later contributions, distinguished below from its origins.
No successor is established here. This does not imply extinction.
The story
Copper accounting used mon. [1]
Turning points
Account-unit observation
Early14th–early16th-century saifu transfer/payment bills commonly expressed10kanmon, providing an accounting observation for the existing mon identity. [2]
Sources and evidence
- Bank of Japan Currency Museum · FAQs Japanese Currency C16 ↗
- Bank of Japan Currency Museum · Historical Events and Currencies in Use Contents C1264 ↗
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“Japanese mon.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Reader edition 2026-10-13; research dataset v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/T-FTM000412.html