I lived in Japan for 16 years. I have a lot of Japanese 1 yen silver coins Here's a few samples: [ATTACH] "Gin" silver counter stamp, Osaka...
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I have most of the 1 Yen silver coins you are after. I was living in Japan, now back in Australia, but will be in the US for the next 2 months....
Whether it's a Chinese or a Japanese coin, the chop marks were only done in China, not in Japan because there was no reason to do so. It just...
That's not "half cent", it's a half penny. Australia didn't change to decimal currency (with cents) until 1966.
In England you would say tupence ha'penny, not three halfpence because nobody in England called them "halfpence". ;)
Or perhaps tupence ha'penny
There's a lot of Japanese silver yen that are chop marked.
Alas, although I live in Japan, I'm currently in the US!!!!!
More than 1 year ago: Far left Yr M37, 10,000yen. In the last year: - 2nd from left Yr M36, 15,000yen - 2nd from right Yr M36, 20,000yen. - Far...
Left is Osaka Gin mark. Right is Tokyo Gin mark. [ATTACH]
Yes, they've gone up a lot in the last year. Previously around Tokyo, you could find high AU for 8000-10,000 yen, but those have doubled or more...
By the way, that's an Osaka mint gin countermark, as it's on the left. The Tokyo mint gin countermark is on the right... these are much less...
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