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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;manymore, post: 699415, member: 17118&quot;]While you are waiting for the Japanese coin experts, I thought I might as well make a fool of myself and make a guess.&nbsp; As you may know, I do not know anything about Japanese coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>But based on my knowledge of Chinese coins, the character may not be a mint mark at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>The character appears to be the Chinese character &quot;yuan&quot;.&nbsp; I do not know the Japanese pronunciation (gen??) but on Chinese coins this character usually means the &quot;first&quot; as in the first year a coin was cast.</p><p><br /></p><p>I did a quick search on Japanese coins and your &quot;new&quot; type looks similar to the fourth coin down at <a href="http://www.sportstune.com/chinese/coins/japanese/kuaneirev.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.sportstune.com/chinese/coins/japanese/kuaneirev.html" rel="nofollow">this</a> web page.</p><p><br /></p><p>Don&#039;t take any of my comments too seriously, though, since I am really totally ignorant of Japanese coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>Gary[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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