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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collect89, post: 816872, member: 15445&quot;]<b>Bu-bu</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">Hello Hontonai,</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">Thanks for your help.&nbsp; </font></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">The dimensions of my coin are closer to 15.6mm x 25.4mm.&nbsp; Looking at the details of the characters, I don’t see a precise match in my Krause book or online.&nbsp; Please take a look at these photos and you may see differences between my coin &amp; the catalog photos.&nbsp; Note the position where the top-right character points to the top-left character.&nbsp; Do you think my coin is genuine?</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">This is the 1837-54 version: <img src="http://i870.photobucket.com/albums/ab269/collect89/Untitled-2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">This is the 1859-68 version: <img src="http://i870.photobucket.com/albums/ab269/collect89/Untitled-1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">This is my coin:</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><img src="http://i870.photobucket.com/albums/ab269/collect89/BUBUReverse.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><img src="http://i870.photobucket.com/albums/ab269/collect89/BUBUObverse.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">I didn’t bother to copy a photo of the Meiji 1868 to 69 coin because the catalog photo is not clear &amp; characters style look very different from my coin.</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">Thanks for looking &amp; very best regards,</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">collect89</font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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