Todays junk box grab for ten cents. Seems to be smaller diameter than my more recent cash coins, so my hope is that this one is on the older side. Might be too far gone to ID but if I had a century I'm sure I could go and try my best to ID from there on. There is paper stuck to it unfortunately. Thanks everyone!
I thought the same. Didn't think it was at first, but yes, it is magnetic. To me that doesn't sound good but I am not familiar with these coins earlier than 1700.
Iron Kanei Tsuho from Japan, late 1700s or 1800s. Can't remember the mint; would have to check Hartill
At the FUN show there was a dealer with cases full of cash attributed in Chinese slabs. Most were priced under three dollars. I wish I had bought several dozen but I just purchased one. He had two 3" plus books used to attribute them. It is an entire field and not expensive. Some of the large slabbed pieces were around $20. They come in iron, copper, and bronze. Probably other metals too. Unfortunately, I don't have the time to become involved with these but I often buy them in junk boxes. I'm sure many I have bought this way are "modern" copies.
Magnetic means it is an iron coin and those are usually less good looking than the AE ones. I'm not sure that it is worth as much as your dime but I'd rather have an iron than an AE that looks that bad.
I expected this one to be bronze. Cool to see that there were iron coins too. I guess I wasn't familiar with that.
Not that it mattered in this case. I got a 7 dollar lot and they only charged me half. It was a good day lol
Probably Hartill 4.176 to 4.180 based on the reverse, Sendai. It was probably glued obverse down to show the Sen character on the reverse. The issues were all iron but the can't tie down the exact coin due to the oxidation. The bottom photo should be rotated to put the cross "Sen" at 12 o'clock.
