Also, at the beginning, 100 people wrote the letters of ''Meiji Tsuho'' on the bills by hand, and then they figured out it would take too much time because there were nearly 200,000,000 bills, which were worth approximately 100,000,000 yen; therefore, they switched to woodblock printing and discarded 52,000 bills which had been handwritten.
なお当初は「明治通宝」の文字を100人が手書きで記入していたが、約1億円分、2億枚近くもあることから記入に年数がかかりすぎるとして木版印刷に変更され記入していた52,000枚は廃棄処分された。