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<p>[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 4165910, member: 4626"]I'm not too worried; counterfeit Japanese coins are rare (though people will fake anything these days) and you'd think people wouldn't go through a lot of effort to make a fake of a coin worth $20 to $30 at most in this condition. I've seen less valuable coins get faked though lol.</p><p><br /></p><p>At any rate I think I'm 99% convinced this particular one is genuine. If it's a fake, it's a very good one. All the design features seem to line up to pictures of known genuine examples. It does seem to have a slightly misaligned die and possibly the collar broke or slipped upon striking, but that's not that unusual, especially when Japan was making its first modern struck coins that started this year (1870).</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess I just wanted a little assurance because honestly this coin seemed a bit too good oddly; almost every coin of this type seems to be in lower condition. It's probably been dipped and or cleaned at some point in its life, but for what I paid for it that's reasonably forgivable. It doesn't seem harshly so at least (although some people's standard for "harshly cleaned" is any coin they can tell is cleaned. To me it means it's cleaned so badly the coin is damaged. YMMV).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 4165910, member: 4626"]I'm not too worried; counterfeit Japanese coins are rare (though people will fake anything these days) and you'd think people wouldn't go through a lot of effort to make a fake of a coin worth $20 to $30 at most in this condition. I've seen less valuable coins get faked though lol. At any rate I think I'm 99% convinced this particular one is genuine. If it's a fake, it's a very good one. All the design features seem to line up to pictures of known genuine examples. It does seem to have a slightly misaligned die and possibly the collar broke or slipped upon striking, but that's not that unusual, especially when Japan was making its first modern struck coins that started this year (1870). I guess I just wanted a little assurance because honestly this coin seemed a bit too good oddly; almost every coin of this type seems to be in lower condition. It's probably been dipped and or cleaned at some point in its life, but for what I paid for it that's reasonably forgivable. It doesn't seem harshly so at least (although some people's standard for "harshly cleaned" is any coin they can tell is cleaned. To me it means it's cleaned so badly the coin is damaged. YMMV).[/QUOTE]
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