Simple guide for the attribution of ISSHU-GIN 一朱銀 Compiled by Heinz Gratzer The style of the inscription Joze 常是 and Ginza 銀座 shows the time of issue. The rarety can be determined by the style of Shu-gin 朱銀 together with the above inscriptions. Inscription on reverse : 銀座Ginza : Place of mint 常是 Joze : First name of the revisor (family name : Okuro 大黒) It's the first name of the revisor of the silver mint. His former name was Yuasa Sakuheiei 湯浅作兵衛, he was a famous merchant in Sakai-shi / Osaka-fu and was very engaged for the government. Therefore Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu honoured him with a new name Okuro Joze 大黒常是 and the appointment as revisor of the new mint Ginza and so all his successors. You can find his first name on certain Cho-gin, Mameita-gin and on all Shu and Bu-gin. counterstamp : 定Tei (fixed)

嘉永一朱銀 Kaei 7 – Meiji 1 (1854 – 1868)

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安政一朱銀 Ansei 1 – Meiji 1 (1854 – 1868)

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明治一朱銀 Meiji 1 – Meiji 2 (1868 – 1869)

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