416 One Yen 900 - Please Could You Identify

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TeressaG New Member South Africa 4 Posts	Posted 04/30/2013 12:10 pm Hello all, I have this 416 One Yen 900. Can anyone tell me the year, also, on the pictures I saw on google, this coin has an extra One? Many thanks Report this Post to the Staff

rooneydog Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 739 Posts	Posted 04/30/2013 1:27 pm Sorry doesn't look like silver to me. Report this Post to the Staff
TeressaG New Member South Africa 4 Posts	Posted 04/30/2013 1:47 pm Thank you for reply, do you think it is a fake? Report this Post to the Staff
rooneydog Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 739 Posts	Posted 04/30/2013 2:34 pm Maybe play money - I really don't know, hopefully an expert will be along soon. Report this Post to the Staff
wheatiefan Pillar of the Community United States 507 Posts	Posted 05/06/2013 08:54 am Where did you get your coin? Your coin is definitely not genuine. If it were, it has the characters for year 8, putting it in the 1870s. Your coin has very grainy surfaces, indicating it is from cast metal. This is a low tech way of counterfeiting. None of the genuine coins would have the extra ONE you circled. This is an indication that whoever made the coin was not very familiar with it. In the USA we see fake coins with similar errors like wrong text, wrong year, wrong image, etc. I assume they are all made in China by people unfamiliar with how the original coins should look. There are other methods for detecting fakes like measuring the weight, checking for magnetism, but in your case the coin is easily spotted as fake without these additional tests. A genuine one yen coin would be worth $30-50 or more. Your fake is probably worth $0.50 or less. Sorry for the bad news but to CCF. Report this Post to the Staff
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