China (Japanese Government) military yen

Ok so picked up two more less rarer banknotes today off of eBay for five bucks a piece. They look like the 1916 1 yen nippon ginko note but they have the red counter marks on them signifying that they’re military currency. Can’t see to find a price on them though or much about them in general so any help Is appreciated! Also numista doesn’t even show a price.

Also if anyone could find anything that talks ab a print run. Couldn't figure that one out either.

I know nothing about Japanese currency but I found this link from Bank Note Museum.

"Print runs" are simply the time (& # of banknotes) they printed & released (or "issued") for a particular series or prefix set. Sometimes these sets are referred to as "blocks" - the case with the 1916 "Convertible Silver" issue.

Now since your 2 examples (P-30) have no serial number, I would suspect that they're either "Remainders" or specimens ore even possibly printer's "proofs." That means they were never issued (or released) & would explain (a) no serial numbers) plus b) the missing (or added letters/lines) on the fronts/backs.

The top one looks "Cancelled" like a specimen while the bottom one looks more like a proof/remainder (with missing text). Just "IMO" since I've never really looked at much currency from that country.

Hello,

Please be very cautious when purchasing these kinds of uncertified overprints/cancellations on EBay. There are numerous sellers using modern printers or even old-school type fake ink stamps churning out so-called WW II era German, Japanese, etc. ‘occupation’ banknotes. I don’t know about these particular notes, but I would heed the adage: if it seems too good to be true...especially at a cheap price.

The improviced overstamped unissued Japanese 1 yen and the amended version produced for China from the get-go (issued in 1945) are value the by the JNDA catalog from fully uncirculated to heavily used condition as followed (in yen):
6,000　1,500　400　- Unissued overstamp
3,000　1,000　400　- Amended note
But you can get these notes for way cheaper most of the time they produced many many millions of them but like the other occupation notes many were readily discarded after the war so their population is of course way smaller today.

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​Please be very cautious when purchasing these kinds of uncertified overprints/cancellations on EBay. There are numerous sellers using modern printers or even old-school type fake ink stamps churning out so-called WW II era German, Japanese, etc. ‘occupation’ banknotes. I don’t know about these particular notes, but I would heed the adage: if it seems too good to be true...especially at a cheap price.
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​- I have to agree. Notes like these should be avoided