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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 1449024, member: 4703&quot;]I have never claimed the title of world&#039;s greatest expert on anything, but I certainly do my research!</p><p><br /></p><p>The 2012 Edition of the Japanese Numismatic Dealers Association catalog section on Pattern Coins (pp. 67-69) does not include anything remotely resembling the original posting in this thread.&nbsp; Neither do any previous JNDA catalogs in my collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the 1962 reprint of Munro’s 1904 <i>Coins of Japan</i>, Plate 24, depicting Meiji silver coins, does not show any with a western date; and neither the section of Chapter VI on Meiji Currency commencing at p.210, nor Chapter VII&#039;s extensive discussion and pictorialization of Experimental and Ornamental Coins commencing at p. 215 mention any such issue.</p><p><br /></p><p>My second edition copy of Jacobs &amp; Vermeule’s <i>Japanese Coinage</i>, is MIA, borrowed by a friend, so I can’t immediately verify my recollection that no such pattern is reported there either.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The only records I have found of Japanese coins denominated as &quot;dollars&quot; are the Trade Dollars of Meiji 8-10 (1875-77), and two different Trade Dollar Patterns of Meiji 7 (1874).&nbsp; None of them bear western dates.</p><p><br /></p><p>I’d be interested in seeing eecash&#039;s credentials in the field of Japanese numismatics, and documentation of his claims.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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