I think it's been a while since the last POST YOUR JAPANESE COINS thread, so... Also, I found some Japanese coins in my boxes that I had never photographed for some reason. The long weekend allowed me some gratuitous time to digitize them, so here are a few: 1896 Meiji Year 29 - 1 Yen 明治二十九年 一圓 NGC AU 58 (the slab erroneously designates this as Meiji 25 or 1892) 1899 Meiji Year 32 - 50 Sen 明治三十二年 五十銭 NGC MS 62 1912 Meiji Year 45 - 1 Yen 明治四十五年 一圓 NGC AU 58 1927 Showa Year 2 - 1 Sen 昭和二年 一銭 NGC MS 65 RB 1940 Showa Year 15 - 5 Sen 昭和十五年 五銭 NGC MS 64
Very nice! Your coins put my one and only Japanese coin to shame; rescued just a few days ago from the WCBB (world coin bargain bin)
Those are beautiful @ewomack ! I don't have many older Japanese coins. They all need to be reimaged too...
I haven't posted anything in so long I had no idea what might be new. This was stuffed in my '2020 photo project' folder and I hadn't cropped them or put them in a graphic. So, it's not new, but it's new to getting posted! I was experimenting with a 'delete background' tool and it wasn't quite right. Solution? Change the shade of grey for the background and you can't see it as much Meiji 42, 1909, in a PCGS slab (or it was when the photos were done, I may have crossed it as I got a few grading credits at NGC and it would fit in my set there). I have no idea. You would have thought last year would have been a great one for sitting in my basement and playing with coins....but I got baby chicks and grew them out in the basement instead. Yes, they are outside now, but I still sit with them an awful lot.
If I could only collect one coin in one denomination it would be the Japanese 50 sen. Your new ones are cool!
Thanks. I've recently taken more of an interest in Japanese and Chinese coins. I've gotten some pretty nice ones out of silver junk boxes at coin shops and basically paid around the silver value for them.
