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<p>[QUOTE="hontonai, post: 1364104, member: 4703"]Long provenance merely proves that it isn't a recent fake, but for as long as there have been coins (and bullion - which cho-gin really were) there have been counterfeiters.</p><p><br /></p><p>Numismat makes some good points. I might also add that genuine cho-gin are not typically as smooth and even in shape as yours. Too bad we can't ask your grandfather whether he got it in Japan, or in China.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="hontonai, post: 1364104, member: 4703"]Long provenance merely proves that it isn't a recent fake, but for as long as there have been coins (and bullion - which cho-gin really were) there have been counterfeiters. Numismat makes some good points. I might also add that genuine cho-gin are not typically as smooth and even in shape as yours. Too bad we can't ask your grandfather whether he got it in Japan, or in China.[/QUOTE]
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