In the Shinano Province, the Sengoku clan in Yazawa, Chiisagata County (present Tonoshiro, Ueda City, Nagano Prefecture) issued small amount of zeni-satsu (a kind of Han-satsu) such as 16 mon (a unit of currency) paper money and 24 mon paper money in January 1863, to mitigate the difficult situation in trade that had been caused by the shortage of government-issued money due to the confusion that occurred during the end of the Edo period.
信濃国では、小県郡矢沢（現・長野県上田市殿城）の仙石氏が文久２年（1862年）１２月、幕末の混乱による正銭の流通量減少による商取引上の困難を緩和するために十六文及び二十四文という小額面の銭札を発行した。