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transition_mom New Member United States 4 Posts	Posted 08/23/2012 9:23 pm While spending time going through old inherited coins from China and Japan I came across this coin, but not sure about it or what it might be worth. Any help would be gratefully received. Report this Post to the Staff

KevinWoo New Member Hong Kong 37 Posts	Posted 08/24/2012 11:37 am Hello,transition_mom. I am Chinese.In my opinion,your coin is origin.But it had been cleaned before,maybe. NOTE THIS!A ORIGIN COIN FROM CHINA!YOU CAN COMPARE YOUR COIN WITH IT. Edited by KevinWoo 08/24/2012 11:44 am Report this Post to the Staff
transition_mom New Member United States 4 Posts	Posted 08/24/2012 4:20 pm Yes, it looks like the coin. Do you know what it says? Date? I am sure my husband never cleaned it. He had it for over 30 years. Maybe the person who owned it before? Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16873 Posts	Posted 08/25/2012 02:31 am The coin is actually Japanese. Using the Japanese pronunciation of the characters, the obverse of the coin (the left pic in the OP) reads, in the traditional top-bottom-left-right order of reading cash coins, "Ryu Kyu tsu ho", meaning "Ryukyu current coin". On the reverse, the two characters are "han shu" which is the denomination, 1/2 shu or 125 mon. The coin doesn't bear a date, but was made by the Satsuma clan that controlled the Ryukyu islands sometime around 1862-1864. current catalogue listing, a genuine one in this condition would be worth a couple of hundred dollars. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
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