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Manchukuo Kangde 11 (1944) One Fen

Exact-identity study with two complete coin faces, authority hierarchy, currency context, evidence boundaries, and source attribution.

日本の植民地・海外・占領地における貨幣関係

Obverse of Manchukuo Kangde 11 one fenReverse of Manchukuo Kangde 11 one fen
Exact documented 1944 1 fen issue. Scott Semans · CC BY · 3.0
Jurisdictions
1
Authorities
1
Coin records
1
Status
Published

Identity first

Control is not the same as issuance

Every record keeps six relationships visible. This prevents a Japanese minting or control relationship from overwriting the issuer and jurisdiction printed into the coin's history.

Political control

Who exercised power over the jurisdiction.

Legal jurisdiction

The territory or state in which the system operated.

Issuing authority

The government, central bank, colonial bank, or regime bank responsible.

Currency system

The unit, parity, legal-tender basis, and note/coin layers.

Producing mint

A manufacturer may produce for a foreign issuer without owning the issue.

Canonical catalog

The country or historical jurisdiction under which the coin belongs.

Political geography

Jurisdiction and canonical identity

The canonical country field governs catalog ownership; the controlling-power field preserves the political relationship.

JurisdictionPolitical classControlCanonical catalogSpan
Manchukuomanchukuojapan dominated statejapanmanchukuo1932–1945

Authority hierarchy

Issuer, note bank, administration, and mint

A dash means the authority did not perform that issuing role; it does not mean the authority was absent from the wider system.

AuthorityRoleJurisdictionCoinsNotes
Central Bank of Manchukuocentral bankManchukuoissuerissuer

Currency layers

Coins and banknotes are modeled separately

Taiwan and Korea had territory-specific note systems while using Japanese metropolitan coins. Karafuto and the South Pacific Mandate used the Japanese yen directly. Manchukuo had a separate yuan system.

SystemUnitCoin layerBanknote layer
Manchukuo yuan systemmanchukuoyuanCentral Bank of Manchukuo fen and chiao coinageCentral Bank of Manchukuo notes

Coin evidence

Canonical issues and production evidence

Trial pieces and production records are labeled as such. Missing specifications remain unavailable and never become zero.

IssueIssuerCanonical countryObject classSpecifications
Manchukuo Kangde 11 one fen1944 · 1 fenCentral Bank of Manchukuomanchukuocontrol: japancirculation coin— · —

Change over time

Currency transitions

Adoption, parity, succession, and withdrawal are distinct events. A conversion rate appears only when a cited source states it.

  1. Manchukuo

    The Central Bank of Manchukuo created a separate yuan currency under Japanese dominance.

Context only

Banknote systems are not coin objects

Central Bank of Manchukuo

Central Bank notes are context for the separate Manchukuo coin system, not objects in the coin catalog.

Excluded from coin issue count
Evidence boundary

Japanese control does not make a foreign coin Japanese. Japanese use abroad does not create a colonial coin issue. Mint production does not prove circulation. No occupation countermark is published without institutional evidence.

Evidence

Sources and scope

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

Central Bank of Manchukuo authority record British Museum

Issuer establishment, headquarters, and verified coin-object corpus.

Open source
Cabinet policy concerning the Manchukuo monetary system National Diet Library

Separate central bank and national currency under Japanese political dominance.

Open source
Internal financing mechanism and hyperinflation in the wartime Japanese empire Cambridge University Press

Comparative scholarly distinction among colonial and wartime issuing authorities and currencies.

Open source
Manchukuo one fen, 1944 Wikimedia Commons / Scott Semans

Exact paired specimen image under CC BY 3.0.

Open source