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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 167015, member: 669&quot;]The Meiji 28 (1895) yen temporarily demonetized at the main Osaka branch mint by countermarking it &quot;Gin&quot; (&quot;Silver), has a Krause catalog value between $9 VG and $55 XF.&nbsp; The Japanese Numismatic Dealers Association catalog range is ¥3,000-33,000 (~$25-280)</p><p><br /></p><p>Bullion value is a little over $9.&nbsp;&nbsp; Personally, I wouldn&#039;t go over $20 for that one, including S/H, if I needed it to fill a hole.</p><p><br /></p><p>I seriously doubt that it played much part in the bidding decisions, as I don&#039;t recognize any of the bidders as people who regularly bid on Japanese coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, although I didn&#039;t see any obvious signs of counterfeiting, there are several coins in the lot (including the silver yen and the British Trade Dollar) which were heavily counterfeited during their circulating days, and are currently even more heavilly &quot;replica-ized&quot; by the Chinese and Bulgarian forgers.</p><p><br /></p><p><i><u>If</u></i> everything checks out as genuine, my guess is that you paid a fair value for the lot.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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