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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;wlwhittier, post: 1697649, member: 18320&quot;]<b>Japanese Trade Dollars; Meiji 3 Yen</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>My scale only goes to .1 gram, so the weight looks reasonable at 27.3.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a large magnet, which I got to imitate a friend who buys lots of silver &amp; gold and uses one like this constantly; it is VERY strong!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]258255.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]258256.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Provenance doesn&#039;t exclude counterfeit on any of the 3 coins under discussion, but if fake they&#039;re not current; the 2 Trade Dollars and the Meiji 3 Yen came from Japan with an uncle in 1952.</p><p><br /></p><p>I did indeed go to CoinQuest, and I am grateful for the link!&nbsp; I submitted the Meiji 3 for evaluation there just a few minutes ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m intend to submit these 3 to a TPG, and I lean towards ANACS.&nbsp;&nbsp; Some folks advise using one of the <u>other</u> graders.&nbsp; I&#039;d like to hear good reasons either way (to choose or to avoid any of them).</p><p><br /></p><p>These will be my first such submissions, and I would very much like to get it right.&nbsp; Thanks for your interest, all...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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