Post your coins from Japan

BECOKA

I'll start with this:

lermish

jt88

SaorAlba

This is actually my daughter's coin - none of mine are imaged yet.

rsei0120

very nice

gscoins

I have only these two. The first is a 63 and the second a 65.

EASilver

Working on a set of commemoratives. These are 67, 66, & 66, respectively. Purchased the toned ones in 2002.

pruebas

I lived in Japan for a few years, but I didn't start collecting Japan until I returned home and attended the Dr. Norman Jacobs auction in 2011.

For the Jacobs sale, I decided to try to buy a few nice patterns, partly because I thought they were interesting and partly to keep them all from going back to Asia. I soon realized that I could only buy the small minors due to price, so I lost interest and sold them all in 2022 to fund other things. They didn't do as well as I hoped due to the high USD/JPY exchange rate, but I roughly broke even as a group. (And they probably all went back to Asia.)

Here was my collection. Many of these coins you will never see again. (And sorry for the upside down and mixed obverse/reverse images. Westerners often have trouble with getting that correct.)

"New Kanei Tsuho" Mon Bosen (Seed/Mother Coin), ND (ca. 1668-1869). Mito Mint. UNCIRCULATED.

"New Kanei Tsuho" Mon Bosen (Seed/Mother Coin), ND (Tensho 6 [1835]). Shusaki Mint. UNCIRCULATED.

Bronze Monme Pattern, ND (1869). Heaton Mint. Mutsuhito (Meiji). NGC AU-53.

Copper 2-1/2 Yen Pattern, Year 3 (1870). London (British Royal) Mint. Mutsuhito (Meiji). PCGS SPECIMEN-63 Brown.

Copper 1/2 Yen Pattern, Year 3 (1870). London (British Royal) Mint. Mutsuhito (Meiji). PCGS SPECIMEN-63 Red Brown.

Copper 2 Rin Pattern, Year 18 (1885). Osaka Mint. Mutsuhito (Meiji). NGC MS-63 Brown.

Copper 5 Rin Pattern, Year 32 (1899). Osaka Mint. Mutsuhito (Meiji). NGC MS-64 Brown.

Aluminum Sen Pattern, Year 39 (1906). Osaka Mint. Mutsuhito (Meiji). NGC PROOF-62.

Copper Sen Pattern, Year 4 (1915). Osaka Mint. Yoshihito (Taisho). NGC MS-65 Brown.

Copper Sen Pattern, Year 5 (1916). Osaka Mint. Yoshihito (Taisho). NGC MS-66 Brown.

Copper Sen Pattern, Year 5 (1916). Osaka Mint. Yoshihito (Taisho). NGC MS-64 Brown.

Copper-Nickel 5 Sen Pattern, Year 5 (1916). Osaka Mint. Taisho (Yoshihito). NGC MS-65.

Copper-Nickel 5 Sen Pattern, Year 5 (1916). Osaka Mint. Yoshihito (Taisho). NGC MS-64.

Nickel 10 Sen Pattern, Year 8 (1933). Osaka Mint. Hirohito (Showa). NGC PROOF-66.

Nickel 10 Sen Pattern, Year 8 (1933). Osaka Mint. Hirohito (Showa). NGC PROOF-65.

Nickel 5 Sen Pattern, Year 8 (1933). Osaka Mint. Hirohito (Showa). NGC PROOF-64.

Nickel 5 Sen Pattern, Year 8 (1933). Osaka Mint. Hirohito (Showa). NGC PROOF-64.

Copper-Nickel 10 Yen Pattern, Year 26 (1951). Osaka Mint. Hirohito (Showa). NGC MS-65.

Maybe @Stork will show selections from her fabulous collection?

BECOKA

These are all awe inspiring......thanks for sharing.

pruebas

I just realized I kept one Japanese coin in my collection as a remembrance (and since it's not a pattern, it didn't fit in the group I sold).

Meiji 10 (1877) Copper Sen PCGS PF65 ex. Dr. and Mrs. Vladimir Clain-Stefanelli (aka Demarete) Collection

1984worldcoins

A friend from Japan made this for me:

1984worldcoins

@EASilver said:
Working on a set of commemoratives. These are 67, 66, & 66, respectively. Purchased the toned ones in 2002.

Absolutely stunning coins! Wow!

BECOKA

@pruebas said:
I just realized I kept one Japanese coin in my collection as a remembrance (and since it's not a pattern, it didn't fit in the group I sold).

Thats awesome. I really like the look of the one you kept.

jt88

jt88

jt88

Stork

Oh boy, I could post on here for ages

Sadly my eyesight has had issues so I'll cheat and use a couple from my PCGS submission from NYINC last year.

A pre-Meiji 'fantasy' which is a word I dislike because it implies a fake or something. In this case, local authority issues.
The label designation: (1601-1870) Koban Zuroku 4-6 Kawachi Fantasy Issue on the label, and I was lucky enough to find a copy of the Zuroku which was a text with a rather extensive listing of the pre-Meiji issues.

And one of a handful of clay 'patterns' (developed as prototypes for clay coins near the end of WWII but not in full production or released, though one type was apparently used in a local area).

And a couple of my favorites...

And on that note, I'd best stop or I'll be here for hours.

1984worldcoins

And on that note, I'd best stop or I'll be here for hours.

Please, add more!

Tonedeaf

This is the only coin from Japan that I have. I found this in a $2.00 foreign coin bin.

jt88

And one of a handful of clay 'patterns' (developed as prototypes for clay coins near the end of WWII but not in full production or released, though one type was apparently used in a local area).

This is nice.

U1chicago

https://instagram.com/p/CLfyoADrUNr/embed/

pruebas

One more from my former collection that went to @Stork rather than to auction. This is a "bosen" or seed coin that was used to make the molds for making copper cash coins. They can be somewhat likened to patterns. It's rather large at 27.5mm.

Bunkyu Eiho - Bosen, Ana Sen (Copper Cash Coin) ND (1863), JNDA-3, C#6.b, UNC. Ex. Dr. Norman Jacobs.

Sergey74

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jt88

This is not a coin but I like this old Iron big tea pot from Japan. So I share it here.

Sergey74

@jt88 said:
This is not a coin but I like this old Iron big tea pot from Japan. So I share it here.

Interesting thing. How old is it?

fluffy155

I only have two, both PCGS MS65:

jt88

@Sergey74 said:

@jt88 said:
This is not a coin but I like this old Iron big tea pot from Japan. So I share it here.

Interesting thing. How old is it?

not sure.

carabonnair

Happy New Year

bidask

lordmarcovan