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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dnas, post: 7485437, member: 93707&quot;]Japanese silver 1 yen coins were countermarked by the mints in Tokyo &amp; Osaka, to be used effectively as trade dollars, so yes, there seems to be an overlap(the mark meant it was no longer to be used as currency in Japan.) </p><p>Also, Spanish/Mexican 8 reales started out as the defacto silver trading coin in China, and it seems that trade dollars were later created to formalize this fact.</p><p><br /></p><p>Japanese 1 yen with countermark (Osaka) and there&#039;s a chopmark to the left:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1294985[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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