Excerpt from A Handbook for Travellers in Japan: Revised and for the Most Part Re-Written The values are decimal, with the yen, or dollar, as the unit. One yen contains 100 sen or cents; one sen contains 10 rin. The currency consists of gold which is practically never seen; of silver pieces of l gen, 50 sen, 20 'sen, 10 sen, and 5 sen; of nickel pieces of 5 sen; of copper pieces of 2 sen, 1 seat, 5 rin, and 1 rin, besides others issued during feudal days representing 1; rin, 8 rin, (these are oblong pieces called etc.; and of paper money worth 20 sen, 50 sen, 1 yen, 5 yen, 10 yen, and various larger sums. Mexican silver dollars circulate only at the Treaty Ports. It is best to travel with paper money, both because of its superior portability, and because it is better known to the inhabitants of the interior than the silver yen. One of the first things the tourist should do is to learn the difference between the various notes for the values above-mentioned. He is advised to take with him no notes of a larger denomination than 10 yen, as it is often difficult to get change except in the large towns. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.