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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 18274, member: 669&quot;]Not much in the way of world coins at this Long Beach Show, and some of the dealers were really uptight about their world coin prices - one of them wouldn&#039;t give me a break on an overgraded coin even though I was buying four others at his asking price.</p><p><br /></p><p>I did pick up a couple of hard to find minors at reasonable prices, but the only real &quot;buy&quot; of the day (for less than the F value in Krause) was a Meiji 25 (1882) dragon yen, counterstamped &quot;GIN&quot; (Silver) at the main Osaka Mint in 1897, in connection with the internal demonetization of Trade Dollars and ¥1 silver coins. About 20 million were shipped to Korea, Taiwan and Southern Manchuria for use in international trade. The countermark was intended to prevent the coins from being returned to Japan and exchanged for gold, due to a shift in the relative values of gold and silver. A few years later, the minting of silver ¥1 coins (but not Trade Dollars) resumed through the remainder of the Meiji era. In Taisho 3 (1914) the final silver yen was minted, but it wasn&#039;t until Showa 23 (1948) that brass yen were produced. Notes had been used for the denomination in the interim.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin has a touch of luster, and its detail is much nicer than my lousy photo skills have rendered it.</p><p><a href="http://tinyurl.com/6faab" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://tinyurl.com/6faab" rel="nofollow">Obverse</a> <a href="http://tinyurl.com/3uey4" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://tinyurl.com/3uey4" rel="nofollow">Reverse</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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