Four Japanese Coins

[Wayben]

Up for sale are four Japanese coins:

 

     1 Gold 2 Bu coin, 1859-1869, 19mmX12mm 

     2 Silver 1 Bu coins, 1859-1868, 23mmX15mm and 24mmX16mm

     1 Silver 1 Shu coin, 1853-1865, 15mmX9mm

 

Selling as a group only.  $250 to your door in the US, international shipping will be extra depending on location.  Send a PM if you're interested.

 

Wayne

 

[Ken-Hawaii]

For scale, Wayne, can you add a ruler?

[Wayben]

Good idea Ken!!  How about a ruler, a dime, and a little Navy advertising.

 

[Bugyotsuji]

I used to have a bunch of these. Legal tender until the end of the Edo Period, they were easy to carry (in a secret slide in your saya for example) and exchange for cash coins for everyday purchases. The social and historical background is worth studying.

 

Sadly, I gave half of them to my daughter some years ago, and the other half will probably go to the other one in due course.

[Viper6924]

I know the important thing with these coins, especially the ones made in gold, is when they were minted. This due to the shogunate’s propensity to alter the content of precious metals in their coins.

Interesting field of collection. You should hold on to your coins, Piers

🙂

 

Jan

[Bugyotsuji]

Why is the second half of your message black and impossible to read I wonder, Jan?

(From shogunate’s…)

[PietroParis]

I can read it without problem on my desktop computer:

 

"This due to the shogunate’s propensity to alter the content of precious metals in their coins. Interesting field of collection. You should hold on to your coins, Piers"

[Brian]

I edited it. People should choose the "paste as plain text" when they copy paste. Otherwise you are copying the source formatting.

[Wayben]

Still available.  I'd say great stocking stuffers, but they'd probably get lost in a stocking.

Wayne