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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gxseries, post: 1347736, member: 4373&quot;]I have my reasons of why I couldn&#039;t dismiss this coin as a contempory counterfeit right away. Funny enough, I&#039;m actually chasing after a Japanese counterfeit of this coin and references but struggle to find them. </p><p><br /></p><p>The Korean coins of this era are well known for different size font varieties such as these examples: </p><p><br /></p><p>1896 5 fun small character variety: </p><p><img src="http://www.omnicoin.com/coins/957963.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>1896 5 fun large character variety:</p><p><img src="http://www.omnicoin.com/coins/991121.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>There are three different varieties for the 1898 5 fun - I just have two. </p><p><br /></p><p>In my opinion weight is not a reliable way of indicating authencity because of the weight variance of the coins that I have in my collection - unless every single one of my coin are all counterfeit. Most of my 1/4 yang coins are in the range of 4.55g to 4.75g. Pretty big tolerance level there. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m somewhat suspecting that it&#039;s an undocumented variety. Here is another example that sold online that I missed - <a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/1898-Yr-2-Korea-1-4-Yang-VF-dirty-/180786497050?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&amp;hash=item2a17b7061a" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/1898-Yr-2-Korea-1-4-Yang-VF-dirty-/180786497050?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&amp;hash=item2a17b7061a" rel="nofollow">http://www.ebay.com/itm/1898-Yr-2-Korea-1-4-Yang-VF-dirty-/180786497050?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&amp;hash=item2a17b7061a</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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