Currency, Coins, and Cash Equivalents

Without limiting the foregoing, you must comply with laws and regulations applicable to you and will, upon Amazon’s request, provide documents relevant to the anti-money laundering regulations to Amazon.

Items considered exonumia, including but not limited to medals, medallions, challenge coins, and commemorative coins not primarily made of a precious metal are exempt from this policy.

Examples of Permitted Listings

• Paper money, coins, and commemorative coins that are not currently valid legal tender.
• Precious metal bullion and crude metal other than gold, silver, and platinum.

Examples of Prohibited Listings

The following are never permitted for sale or listing on Amazon:

• Paper money, coins, and commemorative coins that are currently valid legal tender
  Note: Including paper money and coins that are not currently issued by the government but can be still used as valid legal tender.
• Products which we have concerns about money laundering or other inappropriate transactions such as gift certificates, gift cards, gift codes, POSA cards, and other cash vouchers, etc.
• Cash equivalent instruments such as money orders, postal orders, stamps, traveler’s checks
• Counterfeit items of paper money, coins, commemorative coins and any cash equivalents
• Equipment designed to create counterfeit items
• Bitcoins
• Stocks, bonds and any other securities
• Gold, silver, and platinum bullions (including crude metal)

Additional Useful Information

• Laws concerning Banknote Reproduction (Japanese) (English)
• Japan Banknotes and Coins (Japanese) (English)
• Japan Commemorative Coins (Japanese) (English)