The one with Chinese characters is about 10 degrees from upside down. The character at the far right is 5, but I can't make out the rest in that...
Dated Taisho 11 (1922). Your second picture is upside down. The first one doesn't show on my computer so I don't know if it is properly oriented...
Perhaps a definition of "or" would assist the OP in understanding the situation:
The first one is KM#227, a 33mm Portuguese 1744 copper 10 Reis, probably worth <$20 in that condition. The second one might be recognized by a...
Call it whatever you want, as long as "fake" or "magician's coin" is included.
Cointalkers, like the Lord, help those who help themselves. If it isn't worth your effort to post pictures, why should we exert ourselves for you?
First one I've seen in the 50+ years of Japanese coin collecting. Although I'm somewhat of a history buff, I'm not a collector of historical...
Easy to tell from a picture. Yup.
Lighten up! There are far more serious problems with some EBay sellers than technically varying from the markings on a copy/replica, but still...
It's a Japanese medal celebrating the 1922 formal assumption by Crown Prince Hirohito (later the Showa Emperor) of Regency over his ailing father,...
Most federal regulatory laws are in two parts - a statute enacted by Congress and signed by the President, which becomes part of the United States...
I'm not familiar with Frank Spadone, or his book on US errors, but I keep John G. Spadone's Catalog of Modern Japanese Korean Manchukuo Coins...
Clearer pictures please!
If you give them to the Scoutmaster of a Boy Scout troop, for redistribution to scouts going for the coin collecting merit badge, you wouldn't...
Tooled.
Based on the 1g weight of the slightly larger Japanese one yen, I'd guess about .95g+/- a tad.
Could be OK. Their sample slabs have a variety of formats. I have one with an identical label style, except that it has an American flag...
According to the Japanese Numismatic Dealers Assn. Catalog (a far more comprehensive and reliable source than Krause) the Kaei Isshu Gin...
FYI - String & Sons manufactures coin wrappers that banks, Mint contractors, armored car companies, and others use. They don't wrap coins.
Top row: 100 Yen, Showa Era, exact date (S43-63/1965-85) too out of focus to read, Cu-Ni, Y#82; 50 Yen, Showa 42 (1967), Cu-Ni, Y#81; 10 Yen,...
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