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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kanga, post: 2771194, member: 9270&quot;]From 1933 through 1945 Japan issued coins for their occupation of China.</p><p>I stumbled across this while looking for my worldwide birthyear coins (1941).</p><p>It caught my fancy and was not a particularly large group; about 70 mostly inexpensive coins (if you stay away from UNC).</p><p>They were struck in copper, CuNi, Bronze, Aluminum and Fiber.</p><p>A question about the fiber coins later.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I started collecting them.</p><p>At this point I have about 60 of them.</p><p>Here are the most recent to come through my mailbox:</p><p><br /></p><p>1943 1 chiao (jiao) Provisional Government:</p><p><img src="http://www.dcderoo.com/China-JapOcc-ProvGovt-1943-1chiao-o-35a.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://www.dcderoo.com/China-JapOcc-ProvGovt-1943-1chiao-r-35a.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>1939 5 fen Manchukuo:</p><p><img src="http://www.dcderoo.com/China-JapOcc-Manchukuo-1939-5fen-o-35.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://www.dcderoo.com/China-JapOcc-Manchukuo-1939-5fen-r-35.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>1943 1 chiao (jiao) Manchukuo:</p><p><img src="http://www.dcderoo.com/China-JapOcc-Manchukuo-1943-1chiao-o-35.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://www.dcderoo.com/China-JapOcc-Manchukuo-1943-1chiao-r-35.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>About the fiber coins.</p><p>Krause lists both red and brown colors.</p><p>People I&#039;ve been buying from sort of question that.</p><p>There apparently is a Japanese reference book but I don&#039;t read Japanese.</p><p>Anyone know anything about this?</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, and it looks like I&#039;ve got the reverse of the first coin upside down.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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