Reiwa coins are turning up regularly in pocket change now. There's quite a few close to uncirculated, so it's a good time to find them while they...
By the way, if you are looking for coins while in Japan, you should go to certain antique markets in Tokyo. Of course, you need to be careful, but...
I have a few counterfeit trade dollars, and one that I'm pretty sure is counterfeit, although it's silver and right size and weight. As for Meiji...
I live about 2.5km away from there just off the top of "The Bluff", about 100m from the old foreign cemetery.
By the way, I forgot to mention, there's another coin shop on the floor above the Nozaki shop!!!
Oh, the 1991 proof set was only 2000yen, perfect condition, so that was a bargain. Wasendo is located in a back arcade in Asakusa. If you walk up...
I also picked up a 1991 proof set yesterday, in Wasendo coin shop, Asakusa... In the original display packaging. And along with a Meiji year 20...
Yes, it's Nozaki. Nakano is on the JR Chuo Line, 3 or 4 stop west of Shinjuku station. Out of the north exit of Nakano Station, go straight up the...
I live in Yokohama. Have been working here for 13 years. I managed to get a Reiwa mint set yesterday at a small shop in Nakano (Tokyo) for...
For a while now, I've been creating "coin family trees", with the birth year and country coins on the family tree. I'll see if I can post up some...
I'm just wondering, you say "cent sized", but that's clearly not US cent sized. Or do you mean English penny sized?
I drop in to Ginza Coins every 2-3 weeks.
It's not actually the linguistics, or similarities in sound. It's the shape. The silver "dollar" standard was adapted (from Mexican 8 Reals), to...
Yes, 12 years ago
You need to make sure the 100yen work in vending machines, make them and transport them in from China, and make a profit. 500yen, yes. 100yen no....
He didn't make a quality product that would fool a bank teller in 1954(or a vending machine in 2019), and he got caught because of it.... He spent...
Well, 12 cents (1 Yuan) has more buying power in China than it does in Japan (13yen). You can't buy anything for 13 yen in Japan In order to make...
Really?? I'm surprised anybody would go to the trouble to create 100 yen dies, planchets, with the right alloys to fool vending machines, the...
I haven't heard of recent problems with vending machines here in Japan. There's not so many really old ones around these days, and any that have...
I haven't heard of counterfeiting of 500 yen coins here in Japan for maybe 5 years. It may be that the newer vending machines do an optical scan,...
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