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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jamesicus, post: 2775929, member: 14873&quot;]Thank you for starting this fascinating thread [USER=75799]@Loong Siew[/USER]. As I mentioned elsewhere, I lived in Japan (twenty miles northwest of Tokyo) during the early 1960s (four years). I regret not collecting/researching Japanese coinage, but I was so immersed in researching Nihonto (the Japanese Samurai Sword) that I had little time for any other research pursuits (at least that is my rationalization). But in reference to Japanese copper: raw copper (partially refined?) was frequently used by the Nihonto metal working craftsmen to produce superb furnishings of the highest quality:</p><p><br /></p><p>fuchi</p><p><b>(upper pommel)</b></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://jp29.org/0nihonto33x.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />Ter</p><p><br /></p><p>kashira</p><p><b>(lower pommel)hinge</b></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://jp29.org/0nihonto32x.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Made of partially refined copper (suaka) that has attained a lovely chocolate patina with depictions of mythical lion-dog temple/shrine guards (shishi)</p><p><br /></p><p>I wonder if the same kind of copper was used in minting coins?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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