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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dnas, post: 3945199, member: 93707&quot;]By the way, if you are looking for coins while in Japan, you should go to certain antique markets in Tokyo. Of course, you need to be careful, but some are legitimate:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Oedo Antique Market. I&#039;ve sometimes seen that Ginza Coins occasionally has a stall there!!! There are usually a bit cheaper than at the Ginza Coins shop. (usually 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month)</p><p><br /></p><p>2. Tomioka Hachmangu Shrine in Fukagawa. There is sometimes a dealer who has a coin stall, with a tent top(maybe 50% of the time). All his coins are legitimate. Generally 1st, 2nd &amp; 4th Sundays of the month He usually has an extensive variety of Meiji 1 yen and 50 sen coins, and a lot of other Japanese coins and notes. There&#039;s also a few non Japanese coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>3. Yamato Antique Fair. 3rd Saturday of the month. There are two coin stalls there.</p><p>(a.)At the eastern side of Yamato Station near the end, there is a dealer who sells a variety of quality coins and notes. There&#039;s a variety of mint/proof non Japanese silver coins. He also has a big collection of Japanese coins. His coins are legitimate. Sometimes has Japanese mint/proof sets.</p><p>(b.)At the western end, about halfway along, there&#039;s a coin guy that sells a variety coins, including a table of sort through Japanese coins. Then he has non Japanese coins in coin holders.... You need to look at these carefully, as there are one or two that are counterfeit, but they are priced accordingly and he will tell you they are fake.&nbsp; The Japanese coins in coin holders are all legitimate. This guy&#039;s coins are lesser in quality to the first guy(a.)</p><p><br /></p><p>See here for dates of these markets:</p><p><a href="http://yumemakura.travel.coocan.jp/Antique.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://yumemakura.travel.coocan.jp/Antique.html" rel="nofollow">http://yumemakura.travel.coocan.jp/Antique.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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