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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jcm, post: 3537406, member: 72567&quot;]Hi all, sorry I&#039;m late to this thread. I have a few thoughts.</p><p>1. Hartill&#039;s book is the best in English on pre-milled Japanese. Munro&#039;s is great for background information (which Hartill is scant on). Hartill&#039;s number ends up on my tags because it is the standard English language work. I usually put var. after any minor viariety not listed in Hartill. i.e. H-4.100(var) then the Japanese reference to the exact coin. Standard numbering systems make things easier. </p><p>2. Hartill&#039;s listings, especially in the Bita sen section are seriously abridged to the point of not being useful. Find a copy of the Honpo Bitsen Zupu.&nbsp; </p><p>3. Hartill has errors in the New Kanei section. Not going to get into what they are here, but there are errors in the variety names, and variety indicators but his finding guide is really good. Also he doesn&#039;t have any metric data (Size/weight for mother and circulation coins) - which is extremely useful sometimes. He also skips a lot of fairly major varieties in common series such as the yottsuho sen and fukyu groups. Find a copy of Ogawa Yoshinori &quot;Catalog of Japanese Coins Shin Kanei Tsuho&quot; (hard to find), or the Shin Kanei Tsuho Nobu, it&#039;s in its 3rd edition and still easy to find.</p><p>I like Ogawa better, it&#039;s easier to use. You also hear about Kudo Yuji&#039;s book, but VERY difficult to find and expensive if found.</p><p>3.a. Hartill&#039;s rarity scale for the Shin Kanei series is not useful except as a general guide. </p><p>3b. The prices for common pre-meiji Japanese coins on ebay and other US sources are way high for the most part. </p><p>4. If anyone wants to trade for specific coins, I have lots of doubles in the Kanei series. Let me know the H number and I&#039;ll look through my boxes. It would be nice to connect with some other Japanese cast collectors out there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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