One has to subscribe to Financial Review to read the entire article. When I worked in the City of London I would read articles from the paper....
Well done and quite informative. I have the more common 1 sen and somewhere a 5 sen.
Your knowledge of Japanese history is correct. I do believe though that the Japanese military and thus its government maintained an inferiority...
The Japanese term for an idiot is "Baka" 馬鹿 I would go to that store's website and educate the idiot. My Japanese is still passable. I have no...
To this day, some educated Japanese tell me that they were taken advantage of by foreigners who exchange their cheaper quality silver for the...
If buying from a Japanese dealer Transferwise (now Wise) is usually quite good. HOWEVER, problems arise on the other side namely the bank...
Minted in Meiji 7 or 1874. according to the Catalog of Japanese Coins some 25,564,953 were minted. Do you know the coin's provenance? It is...
Definitely not a Japanese Koban as there is no Japanese "kanji' written on the piece. I need to see clearer pictures. It could be Burmese....
I am a collector of Canadian and Irish coins. I did some research of the various auction sites I follow, mostly Canadian. In April 2020 a PCGS...
Excellent price information. You did not include Taisei which is in Higashi Ikebukuro. It took me a while to find it though. Walking around...
Gubbio: I walked through that town on my pilgrimage to Rome following the historic Way of St. Francis!
I collect Japanese coins, principally Meiji, Taisho and early Showa. I was an university exchange student in Tokyo in the early 70s. I returned...
魚の下着: You have got to be kidding us right! I'd like to know the origin of this name. BTW Kinokuniya does not carry a lot of books on coins in...
Has anyone tried Kinokuniya (usa.kinokuniya.com) in New York or Edgewater NJ to obtain the annual catalogue? I am fortunate that I can ordered...
Over this past weekend (December 13th) "Sixty Minutes" a U.S. news program on Sunday nights ran a program about Peru being the principal source of...
Yes, Auction World (AW) is a reputable firm. It is one of the three Japanese auction houses I will buy from. The Japanese government has...
I checked the Japan Post website which stated that since April 24th mail must go by surface (i.e. ship). It does not appear that there are any...
I have lived in Japan I have purchased coins in Japanese auctions. I have never heard of this rationale. Yes, Japan has imposed strong...
Be aware that many of the Indonesian coins issued under Japanese Occupation may very well be fakes. I recall reading that many of the "Shadow...
Great thread. I surmise that even Meiji and Taisho era Japanese coins are also counterfeited. I came across an 1874 (Meiji 7) Trade Dollar that...
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