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The JNDA Catalog is less than $20 online, and covers coins from the earliest known varieties to the current issues. However, most of the...
I just received my copy of David Hartill's new book Early Japanese Coins, and after a quick review I'm seriously thinking about ordering a second...
Not to mention that there were many iron minors minted in the past, and quite a few modern coins are clad steel.
Long provenance merely proves that it isn't a recent fake, but for as long as there have been coins (and bullion - which cho-gin really were)...
Zilch. It's a fake - possibly plated, but more likely painted or otherwise colored. Before the plating started coming off it might have been a...
Surveillance cameras - lots of them. Cover the driveway and street to capture license plates, cover the locations of your coins and other...
"Milled" means machine struck. All reeded edge coins are milled, but not all milled coins have reeded edges, as that method of production allows...
Absolutely. On the third Thursday of the week after pigs fly by flapping their ears.
I don't see any questionable characteristics. The weight is spot on, and the diameter may also be. Are you using calipers, or a ruler/measuring...
Cho-gin are pieces of silver produced during the Tokugawa Shogunate from approximately 1600-1865. There are many pictured in the Japanese...
Hard to say from those pictures.
Was the serial number on that billboard actually issued? Talk about a low one!
The arcs - representing "waves" - date the coin to the late Tokugawa period through the very earliest Meiji years - roughly 1770-1870. The...
Nothing in the pictures jumps out as "off", but really validating the calligraphy would take larger closeups. You have the ID correct, but...
Your Chinese fantasy piece has an approximation of the obverse of a trade dollar, and the reverse of a one yen. Sorry about that.
It is, if you look under the correct date. Yup. I never say yea or nay based solely on a picture, but it looks pretty good, and the early Meiji...
If this is the same TD shown in that thread, it's just as genuine as the three dollar bill I keep handy for skeptics to mull over.
The Trade Dollar should weigh 27.22g, and in the condition shown there is no excuse for being light by more then a grain. Also check it's...
And 20 years older than I.
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