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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 1649303, member: 4703&quot;]The Japanese piece is a &quot;Tsubo Tsu Ho&quot; (Sword hilt money) from Akita Province, in the Tohuko region, north of&nbsp; the area devastated in the 2011 earthquake/tsunami.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Japanese Numismatic Dealers Association Catalog dates it as 1862.&nbsp; There are three varieties, with different tail lengths, but I have no reference materials showing them.&nbsp; I suspect that sonlarson is correct, as the 7-segment tails take up all the available space.&nbsp; The one in the JNDA catalog is probably the middle one, as one phoenix has a 7-segment tail and the other has 5 segments.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also agree with his dating of the Turkish coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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