Help With I.d. On A Few Chinese Coins Please | Japan Pattern

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GolfHack New Member United States 2 Posts	Posted 09/11/2008 7:56 pm Hello everyone, a little help with a few coins my dad had picked up during WW2 please. a couple of them may be pretty easy, but the large oval one seems to elude my searching about it. Any help will be appreciated! Image: LgOvalcoin.jpg 25.82 KB Image: LgOvalReverse.jpg 26.94 KB Edited by Sap 09/13/2008 08:13 am Report this Post to the Staff

Sap Moderator Australia 16826 Posts	Posted 09/11/2008 9:16 pm This one's not a real coin, I'm afraid. The shape is similar to some coins made in Japan, but the design is different. This page on zeno.ru has several oval-shaped coins with a similar obverse to yours. 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
DCH Pillar of the Community United States 645 Posts	Posted 09/11/2008 9:38 pm Here's one on Zeno.ru http://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=18515 And a quote from a different thread there about a similar piece... "...Keio 2 (1866) in the domain of the Lord of Kanazawa they casted a set of three trial coins with the value 300, 500 and 700 Mon (never came to circulation). Obverse: Value 300 > Tora to Matsu (Tiger and pine) Value 500 > Tatsu to Take (Dragon and Bamboo) Value 700 > Uma to Ume (Horse and Plum) Reverses all the same, except the value: Character above the hole > KA for Kaga (today the province of Ishikawa) right > ECHI for Echizen (today Fukui) left > NO for Noto (today Ishikawa) below > TSUYO (trade coin) These trial coins are very rare, if offert for sale the price varies between €2300.- to € 3900.-" Report this Post to the Staff
echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 09/11/2008 11:13 pm Would like to have a set of the real ones. Report this Post to the Staff
GolfHack New Member United States 2 Posts	Posted 09/12/2008 06:23 am Wow, you guys are GOOD! Thank you! Report this Post to the Staff
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