And I'm from Australia!!!! ;)
Not sure, but it was in the far southwest corner of Honshu, in Shimonoseki.
Ok, so my GF was sorting through some of her jewellery, and I spotted something interesting. I live in Japan and she lives in Texas, but years...
I've never been in there. I think I'll take a look next weekend!!! (I can't go this weekend) ( I looked at their website, but I can't find any...
It's not a grade. PCGS always put a number grade on it, if it's gradable(e.g. MS63, XF 40, etc). If it's been cleaned, repaired or tooled, PCGS...
I'd never thought of that, but it's a good idea. I lived in England for a couple of years just before my teens, and I started collecting English...
Rather than an inferiority complex at that stage, Japan through the late 1800s was just trying to catch up. When Japan defeated the Russian fleet...
One other point about WHY countries issued trade dollars. Mostly, those countries needed to trade with China & Indo-China, so they needed to use a...
It's hard to know what was going on back then.... The British Trade Dollar was 26.95g, 0.900, so slightly lighter than the Japanese 1 Yen at...
No.... as I said, there are lots(26) of cleaned, repaired or tooled coins. PCGS have returned them as "Not gradable, cleaned AU details" or...
A particular seller seems to be running a store, with lot's of other things. Many of the slabbed PCSG coins have almost sequential serial...
Yes, but what I'm more concerned about, is that they are taking good coins that they know nothing about, and (harshly) cleaning them, ruining the...
I've posted this photo of a silver Japanese 1 yen coin in other threads, but to the left of the circular "gin" countermark, is a very pretty...
I've been looking at the prices of Japanese silver 1 yen coins on ebay. I've noticed that good UNC slabbed and graded coins (PCSG & NGC) have been...
Japanese silver 1 yen coins were countermarked by the mints in Tokyo & Osaka, to be used effectively as trade dollars, so yes, there seems to be...
I have two Japanese trade dollars. The first I picked up at Ginza Coins in Tokyo. (I go in there quite often) 45,000yen, or about $415 USD...
I lived in England for two years just before my teenage years, and I started collecting pennies there. I had most of the dates from 1896 - 1967,...
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Ok, thanks everyone for the replies. So it looks like a fantasy piece, given that it seems to indicate the first year of Quianlong. I'm interested...
You could also tell him that if he saves them for you, you could buy all/most of it for bullion value. That would get him the same value, and save...
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