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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 538763, member: 4703&quot;]The only one I feel competent to comment on is fourth from the left in the bottom row:</p><p><br /></p><p>Meiji 16 (1941) aluminum 10 sen, either <ul> <li>Y#61, 1.2g, combined 1940-41 mintage of 575,600,000, or</li> <li>Y#61a, 1g, combined 1941-42 mintage 94,494,700,000 according to Krause but combined 1941-43 mintage of &quot;only&quot; 944,900,000 according to the JNDA catalog.</li> </ul><p>(I place more trust in the JNDA than in Krause.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The planchet of #61a is noticeably thinner than that of #61, but even without a thick planchet version to compare it with, it shouldn&#039;t be too hard to ID if you have a good scale.&nbsp; Even in wartime the Japan Mint did a very good job of meeting specs.</p><p><br /></p><p>At an average price of 8-1/3¢ I think you did all right.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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