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<p>[QUOTE="The Eidolon, post: 6529099, member: 102103"]I studied in Kanazawa, Japan in the summer of 1994. The local shopping center sold a few old coins in the phone card store at extremely inflated prices, so I never bought anything. At the end of the summer, I took a short trip up to Hokkaido and stumbled across a more traditional coin store next to the train station in Asahikawa. Just for fun, here they are in their original packaging so one can compare what Japanese pricing was like in 1994 (bottom two).</p><p><br /></p><p>The top two are coins bought about a year ago in the US. Based on typical exchange rates (I don't know what year they were bought in Japan), they were a bit cheaper for me than the original purchaser. ¥500 yen to $4 and ¥1000 to $6. I usually get coins from my local dealer for about 10-20% off his list prices, so I probably paid about $12 for the pair. It's interesting to compare prices in different countries, though I would imagine there is a lot of variation from seller to seller.</p><p><br /></p><p>Have any of you purchased coins in person while traveling abroad?</p><p>Please post if you like.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1261170[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1261171[/ATTACH] </p><p>Looks like the dealer had a rubber stamp for the Era "明治 年" (Meiji .. year) and separate red stamp for the year number. The dealer above just wrote in the year in red pen, though.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="The Eidolon, post: 6529099, member: 102103"]I studied in Kanazawa, Japan in the summer of 1994. The local shopping center sold a few old coins in the phone card store at extremely inflated prices, so I never bought anything. At the end of the summer, I took a short trip up to Hokkaido and stumbled across a more traditional coin store next to the train station in Asahikawa. Just for fun, here they are in their original packaging so one can compare what Japanese pricing was like in 1994 (bottom two). The top two are coins bought about a year ago in the US. Based on typical exchange rates (I don't know what year they were bought in Japan), they were a bit cheaper for me than the original purchaser. ¥500 yen to $4 and ¥1000 to $6. I usually get coins from my local dealer for about 10-20% off his list prices, so I probably paid about $12 for the pair. It's interesting to compare prices in different countries, though I would imagine there is a lot of variation from seller to seller. Have any of you purchased coins in person while traveling abroad? Please post if you like. [ATTACH=full]1261170[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1261171[/ATTACH] Looks like the dealer had a rubber stamp for the Era "明治 年" (Meiji .. year) and separate red stamp for the year number. The dealer above just wrote in the year in red pen, though.[/QUOTE]
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