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I just looked up your Japanese gold coin in my 19th century krause. yours is the "high dot" variety.
KM#: Y#9 values- F-$250 VF-$375 XF-$525 UNC-$775
weight-1.6700g. , .900 gold size-13.5mm Ruler-Mutsuhito (Meiji)

if it were the "low dot" variety (dot closer to the bottom edge) triple the values on each grade. wow huh. still an incredible coin.

 

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just bought off Ebay. 1943 Turkey 5 Kurus, BU grade. a great beveled star. very hard to find in this grade. (sellers pics)

 

1811 Spain 4 reales, Joseph Napoleon. I have to wonder about all the "blisters" in the fields-- what caused them?

 

1947 France 5 Francs

This coin is slightly larger than a US half dollar and it is made of Aluminum. Being made of soft Aluminum, these coins quickly deteriorate when they experience circulation. This one is nicely preserved! :thumb:

 

How may CoinTalkers have a Bermania 1 Placebo like my new example?

 

I have a few other Japanese gold coins. Some of them are not accessible right now, but I'll try to post a picture of one of my late-Meiji 10-yen gold coins. In the meantime, there's this:

 

these are so cool. I have a question.... was the gold 1 used during the samuri time period ?

 

The circular gold coins were introduced after the samurai period had officially ended, that is, at the beginning of the Meiji era. Some of the coins in the rectangular holder with the two geisha girls, including one of the two low-grade gold coins, were used during the waning days of the samurai period. The larger gold coin was made after the Shogunate had been ousted and before the circular coins were introduced.

 

interesting info thank you.

 

The coins in the "geisha girl" holder are: silver 1-bu gin (minted 1859-1868); gold 2-shu bankin (minted 1832-1858); gold 2-bu bankin (minted 1868-69); silver 1-shu gin (minted 1853-65); and silver 1-shu gin (minted 1868-69). So the two coins minted in 1868-69 were sort of transitional pieces minted by the new Meiji government. Western-style coinage was adopted beginning in 1870.

The total face value of the five coins in the holder is one ryo, which in those days was a considerable sum of money (I've heard that one ryo might have been comparable to $1000 today).

 

Got this in my change today..




First non-commemorative 2013 coin I've seen in the UK !

 

So what metal is that coin made of? Are 10p coins no longer made of cupro-nickel?

 

I'm not really sure, I think they are alot more nickel as the vending machines at work won't accept the newer 5 & 10's
I'm just happy to have a 2013 already I normally don't get the same year ones until the winter at the soonest up here or most of the time its the following year !

 

No. The 1p and 2p are copper-plated steel (as before), the 10p and 20 are nickel-plated steel (new), and the 20p and 50p are Cu-Ni (as before). See http://www.royalmint.com/shop/The_2...ual_Coin_Set?tab=specification#productdetails

Christian

 

At work about a month ago, a woman was paying for her purchase and was going through her change when I noticed an odd coin. I picked it up and it was a 1999 Venezuelan 20 bolivares coin. We couldn't accept the coin so I offered her a quarter for it which she accepted. I'm sure I got hosed on the exchange rate but it was well worth it for me to add an unusual coin (in the US) to my collection.

 

1895 Belgium 10 Centimes

1895 Belgium 10 Centimes...not something I normally collect but liked the look of the coin so put a bid on it; even nicer now that I can see it up close......:smile

 

New horse...

 

Here is a 1909 Japanese 10-yen gold coin that was part of the Japanese equivalent of the GSA sales of the '70s. The American occupying forces (GHQ) confiscated these gold coins after the war, and returned them to the Japanese government after Japan signed the San Francisco Treaty in 1952. A few years ago the Ministry of Finance decided to sell the gold coins that were still in its vaults. I'm not sure whether there was a mail bid auction like there was with the Carson City dollars. At any rate, a lot of these coins made their way to coin dealers, who offered (and are still offering) them to the general public. The coins come in a Ministry of Finance "slab", which is in a custom presentation case, which itself is in a white presentation box. The Japanese Numismatic Dealers Association assigned its own grades to these coins. Mine is a "Beeheen B", which I have been told is the equivalent of an MS-61 or 62.

At any rate, here are some photos of the coin plus all of its packaging:

 

From the $.50 each bin the other day:

Norway 1969 25 Ore Obverse Die Crack + Lamination error. :thumb:

 

gorgeous Japanese gold coin.