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Anybody Recognize These? Japanese?

If so, I’d love to know something about them Each one is actually in a folio that includes what looks like a first day cover stamp. The 11.11.11 seems pretty clearly a WW1 memorial. There are no edge markings.

Thanks!


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  • JBKJBK Posts: 14,637 ✭✭✭✭✭

    As a date, 11.11.11 is 11 November 1911. That pre-dates WWI.

    WWI ended at the "11th hour" on Nov 11, so I suppose it could be that, but in any case I don't think Japan was involved in WWI.

    And as a date, 16.6.6 makes no sense.

    A picture of the FDCs might help.

  • MWKMWK Posts: 57 ✭✭✭

    @Veep said:
    If so, I’d love to know something about them Each one is actually in a folio that includes what looks like a first day cover stamp. The 11.11.11 seems pretty clearly a WW1 memorial. There are no edge markings.

    Those are indeed Japanese coins although I don't know if they were minted by a Japanese mint. The dates are relative to the starts of the Heisei emperor, Akihito, who ascended the throne in 1989. Thus, the first coin is the 11th year of the Heisei emperor's reign, 1999; the second coin is the 16th year of Akihito's reign, 2004.

  • IVBIVB Posts: 248 ✭✭✭
    edited August 4, 2020 6:57AM

    Greetings @Veep

    I've spent some time doing some interesting research on these items.
    I found one of them on a page on the manufacturer's website: https://www.matsumoto-kisho.co.jp/html/nenngou/h1666/h1666.htm

    These are commemorative medals on June 6, 2004 and November 11, 1999. Manufacturer - Matsumoto Kisho Industry Co., Ltd. https://www.matsumoto-kisho.co.jp/
    Obverse: depiction of June / November scenery.
    Reverse: large inscription 記念 (commemorative), year, below the stamp "1000" (100.0% silver), and Mr. Katsuaki Matsumoto's mark. Chrysanthemum flowers on the sides.

    What the medals are about, I do not quite understand.
    However, I found that the traditional name for the month of June is in Japanese "Minazuki". During the WWII the Japanese destroyer had the same name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_destroyer_Minazuki_(1926). Interestingly, he was sunk on June 6, 1944.
    By analogy, I found that the Shimotsuki (November) ship also existed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_destroyer_Shimotsuki. Although, it was sunk not on November 11, but on November 25, 1944.

  • VeepVeep Posts: 1,400 ✭✭✭✭

    Thanks IVB! That’s a lot further than I got and gives some clues about how to proceed further.

    The 11.11.11 I took to mean the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month which is day that hostilities officially ended in WW1.

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  • VeepVeep Posts: 1,400 ✭✭✭✭

    First day covers didn’t add a lot for me. Here are a few more pics.


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  • IVBIVB Posts: 248 ✭✭✭

    @Veep, you need to try to translate this page https://www.matsumoto-kisho.co.jp/html/nenngou/h1666/h1666.htm in Google Translate. There is some info.

  • MWKMWK Posts: 57 ✭✭✭

    @Veep said:
    Thanks IVB! That’s a lot further than I got and gives some clues about how to proceed further.

    The 11.11.11 I took to mean the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month which is day that hostilities officially ended in WW1.

    The numbers on the coins indicate the year, the month, and the day of month. So 11.11.11 means the 11th year of Akihito's reign (1999), November 11th. As far as I can tell, the dates on the coins are just having fun with numbers. I would not be the least bit surprised to see coins in this series with the numbers 2.2.2 (February 2, 1990) , 3.3.3 (March 3, 1991), 4.4.4, etc.

  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Interesting post, thank you all for sharing !!! 👍

    Timbuk3
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