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1862 Japan? Ryuku Islands? Real?

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 Posted 08/23/2012  9:23 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add transition_mom to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
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.
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 Posted 08/24/2012  11:37 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add KevinWoo to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
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.

1862-Japan?-Ryuku-Islands?-Real?

1862-Japan?-Ryuku-Islands?-Real?

1862-Japan?-Ryuku-Islands?-Real?



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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?
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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.
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