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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 7645513, member: 12789&quot;]I have too many interests in numismatics, otherwise I&#039;d own Oban and Koban gold coins, with a particular favour to the ones that were auctioned off a few years ago in their original sealed packets from the 1850&#039;s.&nbsp; The pre-Yen Japanese and then the Yen coins are quite fascinating.&nbsp; Curiously I found a 500 yen coin leftover from my visit to Tokyo - it is a fairly high value ie $4.50-$5.00 coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>When you get into Japanese paper money - another amazing area oft overlooked, the so-called bookmark money of the Shogun era and then the first Yen banknotes were printed by Continental Banknote in the USA in the 1870s and are remarkably similar to contemporary US dollar bills from that era.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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