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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gxseries, post: 7815093, member: 4373&quot;]There is only one other possibility that I can think of. </p><p><br /></p><p>This could be a prototype for Korean coinage. There are two reasons for this:</p><p><br /></p><p>1) The brass like planchet. This was never used in Japan but only for Korea</p><p><br /></p><p>An example as shown</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.omnicoin.com/coins/1021116.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Problem is the weight and size is slightly different. </p><p><br /></p><p>2) The countermark S. From my understanding, the letter &quot;S&quot; could be used to denote &quot;s&quot;ample. This happened with 5 chon coins struck in Osaka mint. </p><p><br /></p><p>The Korean coinage had a prototype issued in 1886 and Japanese mint engineers were contracted to be involved in official coinage. There are very very little literature with this and I am suspecting that there could be strong possibility of this.</p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps Ikegami was the die engraver and he did a rough example to illustrate how these coins could look like. Thus this could another reason why there is no denomination - this was not known yet at that time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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