Hey there, I unfortunately only have those pictures, and was wondering if this is a counterfeit. vs https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces88796.html Especially these are distracting me. Best wishes and thank you.
While it certainly looks consistent with some I have owned in the past, I'm afraid I do not know enough about them to provide a reliable opinion on authenticity (or lack thereof).
It's glued on some wooden item. I also had a closer look onto the other coins on it. The 2 Shu looks fake, too perfect. The 1 Shu looks fake. The round one looks like nothing I've seen before, not a Japanese circulation coin.
Here they even say the coins are no coins https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-japanese-kanai-coin-black-4703767161
Thanks, but I'm not new to the forum. Was just not very active lately. That's the obverse: I love 2 Bu and also 2 Shu a lot. Even have a very rare Nanryo 2 Shu Bunsei. Written top to bottom, from the right to the left, each
I honestly don't know anything about these types. They look pretty cool. Neat focus for a collection.
Oh yeah, the Tenpo 2 Shu. One of the really early ones, actually the only golden 2 Shu type. Have one, too. In most "countries" across the world, the same is happening again and again over the years. Coin face value is going up, weight and content of precious metal is going down. Clear signals that the country and its politics are coming to an end. Same happened 2000 years ago with Greek, Celtic and Roman coins. You can drastically see this with Roman coins: the mint even plated the coins with gold, so the normal people couldn't see that the rulers are running out of money. The mint was cheating the people telling them they own gold. Later, precious metal was no more used for coins as it became too expensive, the coins of that time look really cheap. In 476 AD, the empire collapsed.
Actually I was wrong. The Tenpo 2 Shu is .298 gold, and there is also a later Man'en 2 Shu from .229 gold which often really looks like silver. Here is mine, more golden-looking than normally.
