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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Stork, post: 2835177, member: 71642&quot;]That makes perfect sense.&nbsp; I was applying my Western eye to the issue, and those pesky white prongs accentuated it.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>A quick perusal of the first 20 NGC/pronged coins I found at Heritage fit that.&nbsp; There is a bias towards higher denominations (50 sen and higher) but of the 20 all but 3 were aligned using the denomination centered at the &#039;6 o&#039;clock&#039; position and a medallic orientation.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Of the three that were different, two were gold 2 yen pieces and one was a 1 yen silver...and all were M.3/1870.&nbsp; For all three the chrysanthemum crest is aligned with that third dot.</p><p><br /></p><p>Turns out it&#039;s very easy to figure out using the full slab views!</p><p><br /></p><p>On another note, here is my last newp--another brockage, an obverse 1/2 sen.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/RqJdgjVSQuCzVjt2i3yf_combo.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not supposed to be buying much right now given a rather large budget buster last month...BUT I&#039;ve been eyeing a brockage coin on a certain website for AGES.&nbsp; Upon stumbling on a sale of Dr. Norman Jacobs (of Jacobs and Vermeule fame) in the Heritage archives, lo and behold there was a two piece brockage lot that appeared to be the source of the coin in question.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&#039;Obviously&#039; this was a situation that called for an immediate purchase using the &#039;emergency coin cash stash&#039; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; Sadly, when the seller went to ship it he realized that the coin was either mislaid or previously sold and the site hadn&#039;t been updated (did I mention the &#039;ages&#039; I&#039;d been watching it part?).</p><p><br /></p><p>The seller did offer one of the other two brockage coins he owned in place of the missing 1 sen...and, again &#039;obviously&#039; I couldn&#039;t pick just one...how would I decide????&nbsp; So the &#039;emergency coin stash&#039; took a second hit and both were purchased.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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