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<p>[QUOTE="eecash, post: 1467373, member: 38217"]You mean the stripes or just the overall brown color? I bought a big sack of Taisho to Pre-WWII coins from this guy in Japan. Almost all of them are well circulated, and therefore have this brown color, I did find one that looks like this though.</p><p>[ATTACH]184216.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The sen on the left is the one that looks like it is halfway between circulated and uncirculated. You can still see that shiny copper, like a new penny. The sen on the right is like fully circulated; 100% chocolatey <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I love Japanese 1 Sen coins. Many issues, a few varieties, and they are relatively cheap since the rarest of them is still about 3 million issued. Well, I think the 1873 sen has only like 1.3 million.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="eecash, post: 1467373, member: 38217"]You mean the stripes or just the overall brown color? I bought a big sack of Taisho to Pre-WWII coins from this guy in Japan. Almost all of them are well circulated, and therefore have this brown color, I did find one that looks like this though. [ATTACH]184216.vB[/ATTACH] The sen on the left is the one that looks like it is halfway between circulated and uncirculated. You can still see that shiny copper, like a new penny. The sen on the right is like fully circulated; 100% chocolatey :) I love Japanese 1 Sen coins. Many issues, a few varieties, and they are relatively cheap since the rarest of them is still about 3 million issued. Well, I think the 1873 sen has only like 1.3 million.[/QUOTE]
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