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Old Japan / Chinese Coin ? What Is It?

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 Posted 01/28/2007  12:23 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add rajuncajun to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I have two of these coins, they are 10/16 of an inch. I'm not finding out what these are not to mention I cannot read them? One side has a bunch of symbols, the other has an emblem with a line & two dots (in it) above and a larger symbol(words?) underneath. The sides have what looks like maybe leaves of a plant? Darkish Copperish/grayish coloring on older looking one. From what I can find the 3 symbols on the one side look like:
'å "ú-{ (from top to bottom). Anyone have an idea what is is and if it is of any value before I send it off for authentification. Thanks, again. PS... You were right-on the ancient coin I had previously. If anything I've learned NOT to get rid of anything I come across, sometimes the simplest piece of metal is actually a coin and an old one at that...lesson learned #1. (Just came across a 1749 Brem German coin that I could have thrown out). Just never know. Love this forum and the links you have given me to research.

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 Posted 01/28/2007  1:42 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add gxseries to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Looks like Japanese 1 sen coin minted during WWII. Probably Showa 19 or 20. You need to take a better picture, which you might want to play around with your camera setting. Usually there should be a macro function, which is denoted as a flower on your digital camera.

By the way, is your coin something like this on the right? http://page6.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/j...on/f50169057
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 Posted 01/28/2007  2:16 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add rajuncajun to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Yes! It looks exactly like the one to the right...that is it. I cannot read japenese, so what is it again, so I can tag it on my envelope. I have that flower on my camera, will have to try that. Thanks.
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 Posted 01/30/2007  06:39 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I seem to have got side-tracked and missed replying to this thread. If you're still wondering about the specifics of these coins, rajuncajun, here they are...

Japan 1 sen, WWII period, listed as number KM/Y 62 in the Krause catalogue of world coins. These coins were struck in the 19th and 20th years of Emperor Hirohito (That's how the Japanese date their coins, by year of the reigning emperor), which are 1944 and 1945 AD. I can't make out the date on those pics, but you might be able to work that out yourself. Here's how:

The date will be the string of five characters at the bottom of the left picture. In this string, the left-most character means "year", the next two characters are the numbers, and the two on the right are the emperor's reign name, "Showa". If the number-characters look like an equals sign = and a plus-sign + then the year is 20 (1945). If they look like a plus sign and a "plus sign with two legs", then the year is 19 (1944).

The coins are black because they're made of a mixture of tin and zinc - the only metals left in wartime Japan to make small change out of. In the dying days of the war, even these metals were in short supply and they started making small change out of ceramic (clay).

Catalogue value for your coins isn't too high - less than a dollar, most likely. Year 20 coins are slightly scarcer than Year 19 ones.
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