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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 2773029, member: 10461"]This is both fascinating and, I must confess, rather bewildering to me, because, even rendered in perfect English, this information is hard for me as a Westerner to absorb.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was quite interesting to try to follow along, though. I shall have to read it a few more times.</p><p><br /></p><p>For a so-called "eclectic" collector who tries to fit as much geography, history, and culture as possible into a small collection of 20-25 coins, I've really mostly just covered the <i>Western</i> world so far, and have explored the East far too little.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for the sampling of early Japanese coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>The earliest Japanese coin I've had was discovered in a bulk lot. It was, I believe, from the 1600s AD, looked like a cash coin with the square central hole, and had a pattern of "waves" on the reverse (I think you'll know what I'm talking about though I might have used the wrong term.)</p><p><br /></p><p>When were the first Japanese coins with pictorial elements struck? Somewhere I have a copy of <i>The Coin Atlas.</i> I'll have to take that out and browse the Japanese section again. It was in that book that I first saw a photo of a Japanese gold (oban? koban?) with the inked calligraphy for the first time. Amazing![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 2773029, member: 10461"]This is both fascinating and, I must confess, rather bewildering to me, because, even rendered in perfect English, this information is hard for me as a Westerner to absorb. It was quite interesting to try to follow along, though. I shall have to read it a few more times. For a so-called "eclectic" collector who tries to fit as much geography, history, and culture as possible into a small collection of 20-25 coins, I've really mostly just covered the [I]Western[/I] world so far, and have explored the East far too little. Thanks for the sampling of early Japanese coins. The earliest Japanese coin I've had was discovered in a bulk lot. It was, I believe, from the 1600s AD, looked like a cash coin with the square central hole, and had a pattern of "waves" on the reverse (I think you'll know what I'm talking about though I might have used the wrong term.) When were the first Japanese coins with pictorial elements struck? Somewhere I have a copy of [I]The Coin Atlas.[/I] I'll have to take that out and browse the Japanese section again. It was in that book that I first saw a photo of a Japanese gold (oban? koban?) with the inked calligraphy for the first time. Amazing![/QUOTE]
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