Please Identify Unkown Country Or Denomination | Japan Token

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LouG75 New Member United States 7 Posts	Posted 12/18/2011 2:28 pm I cannot ID this coin which has a simple design. The unit seems to be 1. The obverse and reverse have the same design showing a stylized sun or flower? The edges are smooth, the coin is not magnetic, probably copper-nickel. The coin has a diameter of 25 mm, thickness of 1.65 mm and weight of 5.2 g. The lettering seems to look like Hebrew or Armenian at first glance, but I cannot find the characters in those alphabets. Lou Moved to Tokens forum - Sap Report this Post to the Staff

biggfredd Rest in Peace United States 9104 Posts	Posted 12/18/2011 2:55 pm Try Japan, I think they use the crazyanthemum. More likely a token than a coin. Report this Post to the Staff
Kefiroth Pillar of the Community United States 1431 Posts	Posted 12/18/2011 2:57 pm All I can tell you is that the writing is decidedly Japanese. EDIT: Running the words through Google Translator gave me "Niyu Sunflower" Edited by Kefiroth 12/18/2011 3:10 pm Report this Post to the Staff
LouG75 New Member United States 7 Posts	Posted 12/18/2011 4:28 pm Yes, these symbols are indeed Japanese. They are in the phonic characters called katakana. I looked through Krause and could not find anything resembling the scan. In trying to translate the characters, it would seem that top line is two separate characters, the vocalization nyu and the numeral 1 (ichi). The second line is vocalized as hi-ma-wa-ri, which I googled and found that it means "Sunflower", which I think is the image on the coin. I also found that it has something to do with Japanese anime. I also found a laundry with that name. I am suspecting that this is a token for either a coin operated laundry or Japanese arcade. It might possibly translate as New 1 Sunflower. I'll keep searching to see if I can find it any where in exonumia. Lou Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16837 Posts	Posted 12/18/2011 5:19 pm Quote: ...I am suspecting that this is a token for either a coin operated laundry or Japanese arcade... Correct. It's a token from a parlour of a peculiarly Japanese form of arcade game known as "pachinko" or their modern electronic equivalents, "pachisuro". Do a forum search for either of those words and you'll find several tokens of similar style (though not identical design), like this one and this one. 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
satxwd Valued Member United States 321 Posts	Posted 12/18/2011 5:26 pm Yes, this is a vending machine token of some kind. Maybe parking. Report this Post to the Staff
pls Rest in Peace United States 1729 Posts	Posted 12/22/2011 4:17 pm Most pachinko tokens have this same stippled background; I'd vote for pachinko. (Coincidentally, I ran across two of these machines in an antique store Monday.) Report this Post to the Staff
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