[KS] 500 Won in 1911?

Brother Anthony anthony at ccs.sogang.ac.kr
Tue Feb 18 03:26:57 EST 2003


If the text being quoted said 500 "Yen" (which I assume it did, being written in Japanese?)
then that would be equal to 50 gold 10-yen coins or the paper-currency equivalent. Pictures of
the coin and note are viewable at 
http://www.imes.boj.or.jp/cm/english_htmls/history_22.htm  Japan did not abandon the gold
standard until 1931.

Br Anthony
Sogang University, Seoul




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