Now, since after the notification by the new government on February 30, the market price was steady for a while, Parkes decided to watch over the Meiji Government's policies, but after seeing that OKUMA's policy was more sudden than expected and after finding out through independent investigations that the amount of counterfeit money circulated by various domains was bigger than expected, he became worried that those things would be discarded after the return of lands and people to the emperor saying that 'it is unrelated to the new government.'
さて、この2月30日の新政府からの通告以後、一旦は相場が安定してきたために明治政府の方針を見守ることにしていたパークスは、大隈の予想以上の急激な方針とその後の独自調査で予想以上に莫大な量が流通していることが判明した諸藩による贋貨が版籍奉還後に「新政府とは無関係である」と切り捨てられる事を憂慮していた。