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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 211942, member: 669&quot;]Except for the last 5 Walking Liberties I had to buy to complete my collection, the whole set came from pocket change, and ranges from F to Unc. (no plastic tombs).</p><p><br /></p><p>The rest of my inactive and incomplete US sets were all pulled from circulation, not purchased.</p><p><br /></p><p>With many early Meiji coins being valued at $250 or less in grades up to VF, and in the thousands or tens of thousands for XF, AU and Unc. examples, the vast majority of my Japanese coinage is almost entirely F to XF, with a few better.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve never seen a Japanese occupation coin from China or Korea (outside of a museum) in XF or better, so except for a couple of AGs, my entire collection of those is G to VF.</p><p><br /></p><p>Japanese gold, except for a few commems minted at the end of the last century or in this one, is horribly expensive, and poorly represented in my collection. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Like many others, I enjoy being able to handle circulated coins without fear of fingerprinting them, and contemplating the history they may have seen. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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