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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 166183, member: 669&quot;]In the first place it&#039;s a 3.30g koban, not a 112.4g oban.&nbsp; The current edition Japanese Numismatic Dealers Association catalog values one version of the oban (JNDA #09-10) at ¥2.5-6-million&nbsp; (~$21,200-50,800) and the other version (JNDA #09-11) at ¥2-3.5-million (~$17,000-29,700).</p><p><br /></p><p>The business strike version of the much smaller koban - which is not inscribed in ink - is listed at ¥100,000-200,000 (~$850-1,700).&nbsp; There is also a proof version specially made for presentation to government officials, valued at ¥700,000-1.2-million ($5,950-10,170).</p><p><br /></p><p>Your coin (JNDA#09-23), and its 625,049 siblings, were the last coins of their type, cast during the final eight years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, which endied in 1867 with the Meiji Restoration of imperial rule.</p><p><br /></p><p>Japanese dealers typically sell coins at or above the JNDA catalog values.&nbsp; In the Japanese grading system I would estimate the catalog value of your coin at ¥160,000-175,000 (~$3,50-1,480)</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW for most coins that grading system&nbsp; translates literally as &quot;Top&quot;, &quot;Middle&quot;, and &quot;Bottom&quot;.&nbsp; (Just a tad less complicated than P0-MS70.) <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Your coin is listed in Krause as C#22d.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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