Gold coin

Japanese: 金貨 - きんか
Gold coin

Coins made of gold. The oldest coins are said to have been cast in the Lydian Kingdom around the 7th century BC, and in Japan, the Tensho Oban coins cast by Toyotomi Hideyoshi are particularly famous for their fineness and size. Under the gold standard system, the actual content of one unit of currency was determined by a certain weight and purity of gold, and the government made coins with a stamp indicating the content and made them specie, but no country currently circulates them. Japan's old Currency Law (Law No. 16 of 1897) stipulated that "750 milligrams of pure gold shall be the unit of price, and shall be called the yen," and three types of gold coins of 20 yen, 10 yen, and 5 yen were produced, and that "gold coins shall be legal tender without any limit on their amount." However, although gold coins were cast, they were rarely circulated in reality.

[Horiie Bunkichirō]

[Reference] | Currency | Currency Law | Gold | Tensho Oban and Koban

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

金を素材とする鋳貨。最古のものは紀元前7世紀ごろリディア王国で鋳造されたといわれ、日本では現存のもののなかでは豊臣(とよとみ)秀吉が鋳造した天正(てんしょう)大判が、品位、大きさなどの点でとくに有名である。金本位制度のもとでは、貨幣1単位の実体的内容を一定の量目、純分の金により規定し、政府がその内容を明示する刻印を打った鋳貨をつくって正貨としていたが、現在これを流通させている国はない。日本の旧貨幣法(明治30年法律16号)は、「純金ノ量目七百五十ミリグラムヲ以(もっ)テ価格ノ単位ト為(な)シ之(これ)ヲ円ト称ス」ることを定め、20円、10円、5円の3種の金貨を製造し、「金貨幣ハ其(そ)ノ額ニ制限ナク法貨トシテ通用ス」るとしていた。しかし、金貨は鋳造はされたものの、現実にはほとんど流通しなかった。

[堀家文吉郎]

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