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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mlov43, post: 2028911, member: 16729&quot;]Thanks, gx.&nbsp;&nbsp; Yes, I like the Kaisho-lettered 5 Yen coins, too.&nbsp; That 1952 I have there (it is in UNC, although it&#039;s toned slightly dark) was a major bit of luck.&nbsp; That&#039;s the key of the 5 Yen series (supposedly), and I paid less than $100 for it.&nbsp; I find that 1957 in anything approaching problem-free UNC to be the real &quot;elusive spondulix&quot; among the Japanese moderns.&nbsp; More hard-to-find in UNC than the 10 Yen of the same year.&nbsp; That one&#039;s much easier:&nbsp; I&#039;ll need a five-hundred dollar bill to outbid the crazies at ebay.&nbsp; ...but then hey, that makes me one of the crazies, doesn&#039;t it?</p><p><br /></p><p>And YES!&nbsp; No 500 yen coins for my year-set, thank you very much!&nbsp; I&#039;ll avoid that task altogether, and how convenient is it that I chose a binder that didn&#039;t even have holes for it?&nbsp; This binder obviously dates from the late 1970s to 1980.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Upon a visit to my LCS, the proprietor shows me some &quot;Korean 500 Won&quot; coins that he was saving for me.&nbsp; They were a bag full of 500 Yen coins(!!!)&nbsp; I wasn&#039;t tempted. I told him what they were, and that (at the time) they were worth about $7.50 each versus the .50 cent each if they had been 500 Won coins.&nbsp; Other than that experience, I don&#039;t get to see any decent older Japanese coins there, or anywhere else.&nbsp; I&#039;ll just have to bide my time...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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