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Foreign Silver in Japan

Mexican and other silver dollars entered Japanese treaty-port trade as foreign settlement coins, not as Japanese issues.

日本に流入した外国銀貨

Core routes
15
Issue studies
12
Cleared image pairs
10
Indexable routes
27

Context

Historical and monetary setting

The Bank of Japan Currency Museum identifies Mexican silver dollars as the principal foreign coins received during the opening-period exchange. Their acceptance depended on rules, weight, fineness, and merchant practice.

Identification

How to classify the evidence

Identify the foreign host coin under its issuing jurisdiction, then record Japanese circulation, testing, valuation, and any post-strike marks separately.

Evidence boundary

What this page does not claim

WorldCoinBook’s Mexico catalog retains the coin identity. This page records use in Japan and does not duplicate a Mexican issue as Japanese.

Jurisdiction

Foreign coins used in Japan

MexicoMexican 8 Reales / silver dollar

Principal foreign silver dollar received in early treaty-port exchange

Official exchange conventions, counting, weighing, and bullion comparison depending on date and context
Spanish colonial AmericasSpanish colonial 8 Reales

Broader silver-dollar comparison family; Mexican dollars predominated in the documented opening-period example

Weight and accepted silver-dollar convention

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Evidence

Sources and scope

These links support the claims on this page. Source authority does not imply permission to republish source images.

History of Japanese Currency: Opening of the Country and Gold Outflow Bank of Japan Currency Museum

Treaty-port exchange, Mexican dollars, gold outflow, Man’en reform, transitional currency, and the 1871 decimal system.

Open source
Ministry of Finance history: Trade Yen Ministry of Finance, Japan

The 1875 Trade Yen standard, purpose, and relationship to Mexican and United States trade dollars.

Open source