Japanese Coins... Took The Plunge!

Right. According to Numista, 1 sen made in late 1943 were .1g lighter. I wasn't aware that they were "scarce" per se, but was going to see if I had any in the lot.

At any rate, the seller knows their Japanese coins, so I assume they have already been searched thoroughly. I suppose there is always room for an error however.

I made this site a long time ago - back in 2009 (!) when my design skills were absolute mediocre. That said, it has the important information of the aluminum coins that I am talking about.

http://gxseries.com/numis/japantype...e_modern.htm

Take note of the various weight variety of the coins struck in between 1939 to 1943.

This is a variety that is often missed. I believe this came from a junk lot as it was terribly scratched.



And this is the normal variety:



The key difference is the stroke of the number "4". The left stroke in the number 4 is a straight line instead of a square like stroke.

january - I've made a digital Japan type set album a while back. As mentioned, that was designed more than 6 years ago and the quality is just not there. I was supposed to update a while back but just have too many fields to tackle. I've supposedly a fair bit of Soviet coinage as well but never got around to presenting what I have (!)

For some reason I cannot post a direct link due to copyright reasons but I am the one who made it and do own the copyright. I do own all of the coins in it as well!

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ne...sent.265635/

Otherwise you can google " Japan type set (1870 - Present) by gxseries " and it might be within the first few links.

You can check both links out for reference. Other albums may be of interest such as the Soviet type set album. All I know is that it will be very hard to outdo the Japan type set album design.