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Five Japanese Yen With A Counterpunch

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 Posted 04/14/2025  10:25 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add jdsstrat to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I was about to pass this and a whole lot of others like it over until I noticed the counterpunch. It is from 1951 so it is still the time of the Post WWII American Occupation of Japan. Could that have something to do with it?


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 Posted 04/14/2025  11:17 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Just privately marked, of no real significance; who, where and when is impossible to know. In that sense, it's no different to finding a "7" punched into a Lincoln Cent. "Just someone fooling around with their number-punch kit" is the usual explanation.
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 Posted 04/14/2025  11:35 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Errers and Varietys to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Who knows what it means. Cool counterstamp.
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 Posted 04/14/2025  11:40 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jdsstrat to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The Hops token that Sap identified for me was the stuff of legends (in my mind, anyway), so I had to ask. As always, thanks for all the feedback!
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 Posted 04/15/2025  08:43 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jbuck to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Interesting find.

I love to speculate, too, but Sap's explanation is the most likely.
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