There is a reason for this - tael weight varied from provinces and it depended on the era as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tael My...
It does say it's pure silver in Japanese. Definitely not a 'genuine' koban.
I personally like the 1982 proof mint set - they really do stand out. Price wise... I have to pass reluctantly...
There are genuine examples known for this type. Varieties do exist. This is my example: [img] This particular seller is well known for selling a...
This particular seller is well known for selling counterfeits. Stay away at all cost unless you are happy to throw your money away. If this is...
If it's a soft pack for 300 dollars, I'm certain it's 1973. That's the going market price for this set. Coins in soft pack ended in 1975 and then...
300 dollars is far stretched for these years. It is only the earlier mint sets from 1964 - 1973 that are truly scarce, 1970 being the most...
The 1976 set would be worth the most - I believe it's around the 100 dollar mark as the 50 kopek is a semi key date. Check ebay sold listings...
I'm over there. I believe at one stage it was hit by spammers, scammers etc and accounts had to be manually approved. I do not know how it works...
sonlarson, do you mean something like this? 100% digital https://issuu.com/gxseries/docs/japan_type_set_1870_current Please feel free to PM me...
Very nice! There is always the option of making a digital set with the mintage figures. Happy to do it as a demonstration.
Unfortunately a fake. If you can read Chinese, the reverse says that it's from Hupeh (Hubei) Province. Such mules are just either excessively rare...
I guess the real reason is that there is no real need to do so. The last time metal composition was changed was when silver and copper prices went...
Normally Australia is not home to counterfeits and auction houses stand by their words. Unfortunately counterfeiters will hit anywhere where they...
Unless the price of nickel and or copper shoots up drastically or counterfeits start to appear in mass volume - there's no real incentive to...
I've updated some of the type sets - haven't updated it for a few years. Latest highlights are these: [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] Note that there are...
I guess it comes down to what you want to do. If it is for resale purpose, sending it to TPG will be quite expensive and for the grade that you...
It looks like copper washed / plated. What is the weight of it?
And on the topic of Korean error coins - this is hard to find as well [img]
Here's some Japanese error coins from my collection [img] [img] [img] I guess the easiest error coins to find is rotation error. That said, I...
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