Japanese scrip (Edo period) - Originally used only as a representation of amounts of rice but quickly became a currency. Most scrip carried a face value in silver coinage, but gold and copper scrip also circulated. Issued around 1600 by Shinto priests also working as merchants in the Ise-Yamada.

Private notes had been printed for purposes such as payment of workers on construction projects. Domains issued scrip to supplement coins in times of shortage and to adjust the amount in circulation. By the end of the period, eight out of ten domains issued paper.

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Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrip_of_Edo_period_Japan