The last one is half of a a "magician's coin". There is another coin that has been milled down to fit in the pocket and create a two-headed coin...
Like believing you understand the political workings of a country because you can see it from the shore of your own country?
It is similar to a 1914 "fat man" dollar - one of the Republic of China's earliest coins, depicting Yuan Shih-Kai, first president of the ROC and...
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The characters are Chinese, also used by the Japanese and occasionally by the Koreans.
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If genuine, more detail is needed to ID it. This is an extremely commonly faked coin. Should be 26.4g, .8900 silver, ASW .7555 oz. Y#329 has...
No.
But don't rely on the listed source as proof of genuinenss, since phishers often forge the source information!
Because they are aluminum.
Probably KM#183, if it is nickel and has a cock and star privy mark. Worth ~50¢ in MS condition, less otherwise.
Assuming its real, you have a 26.7g .880 silver coin worth <$50. I'm not sure where you saw it valued at 4-6 times that, but you might want to...
Japan - [IMG][IMG] 10000 Yen 2002 0.999 Gold 0.501 oz. AGW Subject: World Cup Soccer [IMG][IMG] 1000 Yen 2002 0.999 Silver 0.9988 oz. ASW...
Not possible. If your dating is correct, which is stylistically probable, they are either from Imperial China (the Republic of China did not...
You're both right, of course. A word of advice to all - clean your glasses before trying to see detail in a picture!
No, Pu Yi, the last Emperor, abdicated in February, 1912, which is commemorated as the first year of the Republic. That requires you to add 1911...
Read the date from right to left, starting with the two characters for "Meiji" at the top - Mei Ji San Ju Kyu Nen = Meiji 39 year, or 1906.
Probably the same way I did - reading the two large characters in the center of the note. The one on the right is the traditional character for...
Correct on all counts. This 1942 1.2g aluminum coin is Y#61a, the mid-point of a WWII debasement of Japanese currency. The design originated...
Collect89's coin is dated Meiji 37 (read right to left as was the custom then), which is 1904. Between Meiji 6 (1873) and Meiji 39 (1906), more...
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