Can anyone help me with dating these two coins from Japan?

Aethelred

I have these two coins from Japan and want to be sure that I am reading the dates correctly. I believe the 10 Sen is year 30 and the 20 Sen is year 31, am I right?

Many thanks in advance.

ormandh

The 10 sen is year 30 and the 20 sen year 31. That would make them 1897 and 1898. I do not have my Krause handy for prices.

satootoko

<< <i>want to be sure that I am reading the dates correctly. >>

I'm shocked Your Majesty. I thought you would have bookmarked this site years ago when you were alive!

sumnom

Well done!

sumnom

I really like the 20 sen pieces, by the way. There is something about the size that draws me. I don't know that I can really explain it.

Aethelred

<< <i>I really like the 20 sen pieces, by the way. There is something about the size that draws me. I don't know that I can really explain it. >>



No need to try to explain it, I undertsand such mysteries of the collector's mind.

wybrit

Don't tell the one coin that you're dating the other.




And don't tell your wife about either.







OK lame joke.

Aethelred

<< <i>And don't tell your wife about either. >>



I think she suspects something. I was able to explain away the the magazines and auction catalogs that show up in the mail. I told her that I needed to be away last weekend "on business" when really I was working a coin show, she bought that. But yesterday she found an empty 2x2 holder (that wasn't her's) in the back seat of the car!

ajaan

You're weird!

Aethelred

<< <i>You're weird! >>



You aren't just now noticing that are you?

ajaan

No, I've known it for years. Just needs to be restated once in a while.

LimaPeru

Oops - Wybrit beat me to it.