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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gxseries, post: 1629922, member: 4373&quot;]Manchukuo or better known as Manchuria was an area that was occupied by Japan during WWII.</p><p><br /></p><p>I found the 1943 1 fen to be unusually difficult to find. This seems true for a lot of Manchukuo coins struck in between 1941-1944 for some reason - they are getting scarcer to find by the day.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://omnicoin.com/coins/1016783.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://omnicoin.com/coins/990308.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Strangely enough, fiber coins are much easier to find regardless of the catalog value.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://omnicoin.com/coins/989300.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I do not have a Krause catalog handy to know what the values are but JNDA (Japanese catalog) seem to greatly underrate coins struck in between 1941-44. Fiber coins on the other hand are overvalued for some reason.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not sure if anyone else collects such coins but would like to hear how difficult you find these coins to be.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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