Japan series: A very uncommon coin for a very common cash coin

Tokugawa Shogunate. Japan.

Kanei Tsuho. 寛永通寶。In silver. Circa 17-19th century.

Kanei Tsuho were introduced by Tokugawa Ieyasu, the shogun who established the Tokugawa Shogunate which lasted up till the Meiji Restoration at the turn of the 20th century. These Kanei Tsuho were used as the equivalent of common cash coins throughout the period and comes in a plethora of various alloys such predominantly copper, brass and zinc. The variants and study of Kanei Tsuhos is a very large field of study such as mint marks, waves etc but are predominantly very common.

However, occasionally silver and gold variants were minted for special occasions and were not meant for general circulation. Occasions such as the establishment of a new temple, official gifts or special mint issues may see such pieces minted in very limited numbers.

 

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Nice one, LS. How much does that bad boy weigh?

 

Definitely cool---with or without the animals Steve expects to see

What!!! No falling horsemen???

And the 'characters' translate to ?????

 

I did not take it out of the original flip I got from the seller. But with the flip it's 6.8g. Minus the average weight of an equivalent flip of 2.2g I would give the weight approximately 4g give and take

 

Sadly oriental far east coins don't have much of a tradition of pictures except for the charms. ..

Kuan 寛 means widely, broadly, vast. Yong 永 means "eternal". Tong Bao 通寶 means circulating treasure. So if you link it up, it roughly means vast and eternal circulating treasure.

 

Sure, you've added-in a new sweet yellow background in an attempt to make these babies seem even more cool than they are ... well played!!

=> but I still noticed that there weren't any animals, my friend (nice try)



ahaha => just jokes ... yah, whatev ... I'm pretty sure that I'm gonna hunt-down an example that suits my style ...

Oh, you have an amazing collection (congrats) ... you're absolutely rockin' our cash-coin-category!!

 

Haha.. Thanks @stevex6 ... Mine is so-so.. Only very few up the Hartill scale. Being Chinese, I am slightly partial to this series as a tribute to my heritage.. But I also collect other civilizations too although not as experienced as you guys.., lol

 

For some, a 200 year old coin, or building, is "relatively modern" while for others it is almost ancient. Same here. While we do not have a precisely cut-off date for ancient vs modern, this topic is now in World Coins ...

Christian

 

Thanks for the move. Appreciate it..

 

Well again, you seem to have an amazing chinese cash-coin collection ...

=> I'd love to see your other side-avenue pieces ... please don't be afraid to chuck-in your cool examples from "any coin-category"

... you rock, LS (a definite awesome addition to our coin-troop!!)

 

Thanks... Will put up more across the various side series too

 

Blame @TIF for the suggestion. Now I'm in Europe and collect mostly coins from around here. So I do not know much about, say, older Asian or early Islamic coinage. So I cannot really comment on your posts, except ... Interesting!

Christian

 

wow => directly under the bus

... Princess, why judge?

*whatev* ... she is powerful enough to deflect this one poison-arrow

=> one for all, and all for one!!

 

Hey @chrisild . Please feel free to move postings anywhere you feel fitting so that we keep the discussions clean.

I am not so experienced in Islamic coins to be honest except collecting a few that had some historical significance such as famous personalities or events. I tend to hover closely around Asian coins because of their diversity and a couple of American since I was there for awhile. I like this forum because it provides a rich repository of diverse coinage throughout all corners of the world and ages.. Glad to be here

 

The cutoff date is a bit nebulous, but this one was made almost yesterday, relatively speaking. . It'll probably get more attention on the World board.

 

... we all rock (keep-up the awesome coining, my friends)

Listen!! => we've all got to follow the proper rules:






... we're awesome (no worries)

 

Looking forward to it buddy

 

oh cool, i didn't know these came in "silver" flavor...neat coin LS. i have one of the cheapie common types...

 

Thanks @chrsmat71 . Actually you should check the reverse too to see the variant. Some have characters indicating mint which could also be pretty Scarce. I suggest getting Hartill's Early Japanese Coins for a good reference. .

 

i pulled out my coin LS, it's completely blank on the reverse.