1860 0.5 groshen - hannover de

Chiossone worked and studied in germany and england before being assigned to japan.   the design shown, influenced both the norway posthorn ; and the japanese koban series ...

Batz of denmark, trained the designor of posthorn.  electro-typing of cliches assigned in a random matrix of 100 .   the Norge posthorn series predated the 1876 kobans ... however, chiossone borrowed design elements for the 5 sen brown ...



an interesting parallel.