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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 1357959, member: 4703&quot;]The arcs - representing &quot;waves&quot; - date the coin to the late Tokugawa period through the very earliest Meiji years - roughly 1770-1870.</p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;mon&quot; was the smallest unit of pre-Meiji currency, and the value of 1 sen was equivalent to 1 mon when the currency change occurred in Meiji 3 (1870).&nbsp; The common denominations were 1- and 4-mon, with the 1-mon equal in size to a Chinese cash coin, and the 4-mon being somewhat larger.&nbsp; Large oval 100-mon coins were also cast.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your specific coin is not depicted in the Japanese Numismatic Dealers Assn. catalog, and matching obverse/reverse was not a common style of Japanese cast coinage.&nbsp; I haven&#039;t had a chance yet to review other sources of information on pre-Meifi coinage, so I&#039;m definitely not attributing your coin as anything but genuine at this time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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