Japan: 'Kobundo' gold coin of the Tokugawa Period. Photo by PHGCOM (CC BY-SA License). From the 16th century, local currencies started to be made in Japan, with the minting of local coins, sometimes in gold. The Takeda clan of Kōshū minted gold coins which were later adopted by the Tokugawa Shogunate. Hideyoshi unified Japan, and thus centralied most of the minting of large denomination silver and gold coins, effectively putting in place the basis of a unified currency system. He developed the large Ōban plate, also called the Tenshō Ōban, in 1588, a predecessor to Tokugawa gold coinage.

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