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Chinese cash coin i.d.?

tbirde56tbirde56 Posts: 2,161
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  • dingdingdingding Posts: 31
    Japanese coin
  • satootokosatootoko Posts: 2,720 ✭
    Very possibly a Tokugawa Shin-Kaneisen circa 1668-1835. There are several with slightly different calligraphy, which is hard to differentiate when it's that worn.

    Is there anything on the reverse?
    Roy


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  • SapyxSapyx Posts: 2,260 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Is it iron? Some of these "Japanese cash" were made of iron. (some eras, the iron ones are the norm, some the exception). Check it with a magnet...
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  • tbirde56tbirde56 Posts: 2,161
    This one is copper, 23 millimeters diameter, and the reverse seems to be blank.
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  • shirohniichanshirohniichan Posts: 4,992 ✭✭✭
    It's definitely a Kan'ei Tsuuhoh.
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  • satootokosatootoko Posts: 2,720 ✭


    << <i>It's definitely a Kan'ei Tsuuhoh. >>

    With a little prodding, the Beautiful Bride translated some information from the JNDA catalog. image

    The legend, reading top to bottom, right to left, is "Kanei-Tsuuhoh", from the period 1626 to 1708. There are 16 coins with that legend listed as "Ko-Kaneisen" (1626-56), and about 52 of the 84 "Shin-Kaneisen" (1626-1708) coins also are inscribed that way. All but a couple are ~23mm, and the differences among the others are strictly details of the callifgraphy, some of which may be impossible for even an expert to distinguish in the condition of that coin. image

    In that condition, the JNDA value ranges from ¥100-80,000!
    Roy


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