Late 19th C. Japan 1 Yen Countermarking

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BobAlmighty125 Valued Member United States 199 Posts	Posted 05/31/2014 9:10 pm I just picked this up at a coin dealer and there seems to be an abnormal amount of countermarking. Krause lists countermarked varieties of this coin (Y#28a.1 through 28a.5) but the images show only one countermark. Does anyone have any thoughts on the added countermarking? Thanks! PS: Sorry for the poor image quality- I couldn't get the image optimizer to work so I had to get them down to 100KB myself Report this Post to the Staff

zxcccxz Pillar of the Community Canada 5417 Posts	Posted 05/31/2014 9:17 pm There are plenty of countermarked varieties that Krause doesn't list. This might be one of them. This could also have had more countermarks added on later by a seperate entity. Report this Post to the Staff
gxseries Pillar of the Community Australia 3831 Posts	Posted 05/31/2014 9:18 pm This is what is called a chopmark. As such coins circulated in China and other parts of Asia, these were stamped to see if they are actually silver instead of plated silver. Essentially this made it a "bullion". My partial coin collection http://www.omnicoin.com/collection/gxseries My numismatics articles and collection: http://www.gxseries.com/numis/numis_index.htm Regularly updated at least once a month. Report this Post to the Staff
BobAlmighty125 Valued Member United States 199 Posts	Posted 05/31/2014 9:21 pm How do the chopmarks affect the value? Report this Post to the Staff
nalaberong Pillar of the Community Canada 2805 Posts	Posted 05/31/2014 11:14 pm Some people like them, some people consider them damage. In higher grades they can be negative, but there's always a chance that a chopmark enthusiast will buy it and pay a good price. However, your pictures are not so good, so some future advice here. I assume they are scanned - they have a really low colour depth. Did you edit them before posting? This is what saving in the .gif format in MS Paint does to images - .png is the best lossless format for your images, and .jpg is the best compressed format to make low file sizes. Edited by nalaberong 05/31/2014 11:15 pm Report this Post to the Staff
BobAlmighty125 Valued Member United States 199 Posts	Posted 05/31/2014 11:57 pm You nailed it- I saved them as .gif in MS paint. I'll take care to use a different file type next time. Thanks all! Report this Post to the Staff
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