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I recently found out about this tachi that was sold at an absurd $100,000,000 USD.  Can anyone tell me why it was appraised so high?  Looking at the blade, it has a very deep tori-zori, one that I haven't seen on a tachi before.  From what I know, tachi usually had koshi-zori.  The blade is clearly not in the best shape.  It has numerous nicks in the edge and is completely out of polish.  It is also clearly starting to lightly rust.  The koshirae is in amazing condition, and I wonder when it was made.  It also seems to have a bit of history to it, supposedly used by Fukushima Masanori.  I haven't seen any info of the name of the smith nor have I seen the tang.  The most expensive nihonto I've seen up to this point was only a few million USD.  What makes this one worth so much more?

 

Immediately upon seeing this, I had a feeling the price is a product of art-world money laundering.  Can any experienced people shed some light on this?

 

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We have covered this sword and this topic already several times on the NMB….. boring….

Please do some homework with the search facility on the NMB and Google. 
Also, please read about how they have self-appraised this “sword” and self-evaluated it. 

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My bad y'all.  I only searched "100,000,000" into the search bar and assumed that'd be enough.  I'll search more carefully next time.  

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29 minutes ago, The Forest Ninja said:

Maybe, the website meant Yen vs USD?  :glee:

 

100,000,000 Yen = $66,167.804 US Dollars.

 

Which is still outrageous. Perhaps they meant in Iranian Rial?

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Russia is a closed society. Just like Japanese scholars can have rather unusual opinions about Chinese or worse European swords and steel, Russia can cultivate bizarre ideas about anything not Russian. There is government approved institute of experts on historical items, only about 10-15% of which knows what they do, the rest have titles. Nevertheless their opinion has a stamp of being the official science, propped up by lengthy prison terms for "unscientific positions" vis-a-vis certain historical or modern events.

Some "expert" identified this item as such and so it is.

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