One yen coin

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  1. Beaver

    Beaver New Member

    Hello, I'm new here can anyone tell me anything about this coin.
     

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  4. Collector1966

    Collector1966 Senior Member

    It looks like a fake 1875 (Meiji year 8) one yen coin to me.
     
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  5. doug444

    doug444 STAMPS and POSTCARDS too!

    Year 8 is by far the most valuable 1 Yen, so a logical candidate for a forgery. And on a genuine coin, the characters for "year" and "Mei" do not overlap the beaded circle. Pure fake.
     
    doug444, Apr 17, 2014
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  6. Collector1966

    Collector1966 Senior Member

    The dots between numbers/characters are also misaligned and irregularly spaced, and the 八 (8) is also wrong.
     
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  7. Galen59

    Galen59 Gott helfe mir

    Chinese fake, so many things wrong....
     
    Galen59, Apr 17, 2014
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  8. Beaver

    Beaver New Member

    Thanks guys, I just found it an the magnet wouldn't stick. I don't know much about coins but gonna try an start collecting
     
    Beaver, Apr 17, 2014
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