Okay - the top left is a bronze Japanese 2 sen, Y#18.1, dated Meiji 7 (1874), worth <$2. Top right is a copper Japanese 1 sen, Y#171, dated Meiji...
In other words, he had no monitored alarm system. I just can't be as sympathetic as I might if he wasn't such a cheapskate and had procured basic...
I could be wrong, but it appears that the coins aren't in the same relative positions in all the pictures. There is a Japanese Showa 10 (1935) 2...
Aren't you really looking for the "consensus" choice, not a non-existent "unanimous" choice? Merriman-Webster Dictionary: At least when I went...
And the quality of many of the pictures leaves the rest of us as ignorant of the value as you were when you bought it.
Whose "technical terms" are you talking about? A pfennig is a pfennig and a cent is a cent, and as Kipling said, "Never the twain shall meet."...
Yup. Tricks that involve supposedly changing a dime to a cent, or vice versa. Examine the "third side" closely. There are two basic...
Dumb question - If you want legal advice why don't you get it from an attorney licensed in the appropriate jurisdiction? Just asking.
The top one is a Japanese brass 5 yen dated Showa 25 (1950), worth face value of about 6-1/2 cents.
Okay.
Its on the webpage at lettow's link. They show up on ebay once in a while, but they don't go for very much.
50 sen government note depicting Mt. Fuji and cherry blossoms, known as the "Fuji-Sakura" issue. Issued from June 3, Showa 13 (1938) to August...
Well, that explains both the quality of the obverse and the source of the criticism of the government in a tightly controlled state. Do you know...
Pardon me for bringing this up, buy why on earth would anyone buy something and then seek advice about value? I lost count decades ago of how...
The face appears to be a genuine Bank of Japan 10 yen note, of a style issued from December 15, 1943 to March 2, 1946, known as the "Second Wake"...
Such as?
Despite the packaging, it's definitely not a mint set. National mints do not sell sets composed of coins from multiple years
Well, it's so rare that not even the Japanese Mint has an example. The problem is, that the Chinese fantasy meisters have minted those, but the...
And others don't match any real set of dies. The Chinese counterfeiters are nothing if not imaginative!
Which you can probably verify very easily. See if they are magnetic.
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