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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;manymore, post: 2339163, member: 17118&quot;]I received a message from ScotsJohnR in regard to this thread.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m really not familiar with Japanese coinage but I can help a little with the translation.</p><p><br /></p><p>The inscription on the first image, which is upside-down, is 百萬两 which translates as &quot;one million <i>ryo</i>&quot; (100 x 10,000 <i>ryo</i>).&nbsp; The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry%C5%8D" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry%C5%8D" rel="nofollow"><i>ryo</i></a> is the Japanese equivalent of the Chinese &quot;<i>tael</i>&quot; or &quot;<i>liang</i>&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since the typical <i>oban</i> was about 10 <i>ryo</i>, I think, then this is certainly some type of modern fantasy piece.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding the second image, the characters at the top are 京都 which is the city of Kyoto.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not able to translate the three vertical characters.&nbsp; The first two characters appear to be 井譯.&nbsp; &nbsp; In Chinese, the character 井 means &quot;well&quot;, as in a water well, and the character 譯 means &quot;translate&quot;.&nbsp; The last character is Japanese (Hiragana? Katakana?) which I am unable to read.</p><p><br /></p><p>Gary[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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