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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 37939, member: 669&quot;]Welcome to the forum Aran.&nbsp; Actually, it could probably date to any time in the Tokugawa Era - the period from 1603-1867 during which the Shoguns (Warlords) ruled in the Emperor&#039;s name.&nbsp; While it wasn&#039;t issued by the national government, or any provincial government, it was a form of &quot;money&quot;, somewhat equivalent to the English Conder Tokens, or the U.S. Hard Times and Civil War Tokens.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately my best efforts at modifying your pictures weren&#039;t good enough to make the legends completely readable, but the central part of Side B, under the decorative circle, is &quot;go ju mon&quot; (50 mon), a monetary value.&nbsp; The most common size round &quot;cash&quot; coins with the square center hole are 1 mon.&nbsp; The center legend under the circle on Side A is &quot;nin soku tsuyo sen&quot; (roughly&nbsp; &quot;laborer&#039;s money&quot;).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The shape of the coin is that of the official weights used in feudal Japanese balance scales, which is depicted on - among others -&nbsp; the ¥50 coins of 1955-58.</p><p><br /></p><p>A most interesting and unusual piece that is extremely difficult to place a value on.&nbsp; I&#039;m not aware of any English language catalog of this type of token.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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