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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;doug444, post: 1972985, member: 38849&quot;]Manchukuo, 1937, 1 chiao, Krause #Y-519.&nbsp; Books $2 in VG, $5 in fine.&nbsp; Manchukuo was a province of far northeast China captured by Japan in the 1930s, then set up as an independent state with its own coins and stamps. </p><p><br /></p><p>This was Japan&#039;s first aggressive foothold on the Asian mainland, other than the fact it had occupied what is now Korea and Formosa/Taiwan for many years previously.&nbsp; Coins of Manchukuo are not especially common; a similar copper-nickel coin from China or Japan is worth about ten cents when well-circulated.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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