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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 1626052, member: 4703&quot;]Those are the 1 and 2 bu and shu hammered coins of the last years of the Tokugawa Shogunate (generally mid-19th Century).&nbsp; I agree that for a little dabble in Japanese coinage a few of them would be ideal. </p><p><br /></p><p>High grade silver yen from the late 19th-early 20th Centuries are likely to exhaust your budget very, very quickly, and no early gold milled coinage is going to be available within budget.</p><p><br /></p><p>A word of warning - DO NOT buy coins from hotel bellhops, or anywhere else other than an established B&amp;M shop, or you&#039;re very likely to wind up with Chinese production items, not Japanese Mint products.</p><p><br /></p><p>Depending on where you will be traveling, I may be able to recommend a good shop or two.&nbsp; If interested, PM me with details of your itenerary.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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