Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 159290, member: 669&quot;]Mike, I wish I were at home with my reference books to specifically identify and attribute your silver and gold pre-Meiji coins.&nbsp; Both are in excellent condition, and the slight off-center appearnace of the silver one is typical.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t collect anything before 1867, but I do recognize your coins as either ichi-bu, ni-bu, ishu, or ni-shu, probably from the 1860-66 period, and no older than the very late 18th Century if my recollection is to be trusted.</p><p><br /></p><p>They were relatively plentiful, and inexpensive during and shortly after the US Occupation of Japan in the decade following the end of WW II, which is consistent with your understanding of their source.</p><p><br /></p><p>Google &quot;Lion Coins Japan&quot; and you should turn up a website run by an Englishman with a considerable amount of information on both modern and pre-Meiji Japanese coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>You should also recheck your library - it undoubtedly has, or can get on interlibrary loan, the 19th Century edition of the Standard Catalog of World Coins by Krause &amp; Mishler.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW if I were at home I would have access to my smileys library, and could give you a proper welcome to CoinTalk.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in