Coexistence · conversion · redemption
Meiji Transitional Currency
Old coins, notes, regional media, and early Meiji ryō issues coexisted while the government prepared and implemented the yen system.
明治移行期の貨幣
- Core routes
- 15
- Issue studies
- 12
- Cleared image pairs
- 10
- Indexable routes
- 27
Context
Historical and monetary setting
The Restoration did not instantly replace physical money. The government initially permitted a mixed legacy environment and later used law, mint production, exchange, and redemption to move toward decimal coinage.
Identification
How to classify the evidence
Treat legal adoption, effective exchange, local circulation, and final redemption as separate dates.
Evidence boundary
What this page does not claim
No single conversion or cutoff is assumed to have operated instantly nationwide.
Coexistence
Legacy-to-decimal transition records
| From | To | Official conversion | Start | End | Regional boundary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ryō / bu / shu, weighed silver, and mon | yen / sen / rin | Multiple official valuations and exchange schedules; no single rule is asserted here for every legacy object | 1868 | 1879 | Legacy coin, note, and regional conditions differed |
| ryō | yen | The yen replaced ryō-based accounting within the new decimal system; this record does not imply instant nationwide physical replacement | 1871-06-27 | — | Implementation depended on production and withdrawal of older media |
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Related transition references
Evidence
Sources and scope
These links support the claims on this page. Source authority does not imply permission to republish source images.
Treaty-port exchange, Mexican dollars, gold outflow, Man’en reform, transitional currency, and the 1871 decimal system.
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