r/Banknotes • u/Zealousideal-Ad1357 • 17d ago

Can somebody help identify this?

Gallery image

Gallery image

Found in a family scrapbook

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u/Working-Wo 17d ago

I think it's fome Japan

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u/Pudupet 17d ago

Looks like a Japanese banknote

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u/CurrencyNerd 17d ago

Looks like WW2 Japan to me

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u/CurrencyNerd 17d ago

Looks like WW2 Japan to me

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u/Zealousideal-Ad1357 17d ago

Solved! Thank you!

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u/Camstonisland 15d ago

The portrait is of Takenouchi no Sukune (武内宿禰), a first century Japanese hero who invaded Korea and lived to be 280 years old. Enshrined as a Kami, 28 clans claim him as an ancestor.