My new Japanese lots from Auction World
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I've been working as a side project for several years, to fill up a Dansco Japanese type set, with choice to gem coins only. The album has four pages and even though I was able to fill up the latter two pages with choice to gem coins that often weren't slabbed, it is no longer the case for Meji and Taisho coins.
I therefore buy them slabbed, from MS63 to MS65 and 64RB to 65RD for copper, mostly if not exclusively from Auction World, a Japanese auctioneer, then I crack them out and place them into the Dansco. I keep a plastic bag with most labels inside it. Here are some lots that I won yesterday and a while ago.
They should all have been the size of the last one, I can't figure it out.
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Gorgeous coins Dimitri
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Thank you.
They're more impressive in big pictures and Auction World takes fantastic pictures. They never use TrueView or Realvision, or whatever the NGC photos are called now (currently better than Trueview), but only their own, which are as close as it gets to the real thing. Also, some grades are also MS66 or even MS66+. Like the last coin which is not coming that often for auction and even an MS66+ example is modest to medium priced. So I grab them as soon as I see them.
A rather tough part were the WW2 minors. Ignored by Krause with unrealistic super low prices. They are very scarce to rare in choice gem BU and besides individual purchases from Karl Stephens and whomever I could find selling what I was after, I had to buy a 1936-1964 ,part type and part date collection, to fill seveeal of my slots that required coins in tin, or other cheap metals. Our old Darksider friend, @cladking would surely agree with me on that.
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At yesterday's auction there were 6-7 Meiji 6 (1873) 5 sens in PCGS MS67.
The slot is filled with a 65 or a 66 of this period, but I've bid on one of them without the intention of cracking it up. They all closed at approx. ¥18000! hammer, or ¥20000 including their 11% buyer's commission. I was underbidder at ¥1000 below the winning bid, approx $6-$7.
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Nice coins. I was watching some of the lots on that auction.
Excellent project. Thanks for sharing the images. I am intrigued with the so-called gin marked Yen coins. Gem Yen coins are challenging
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I'll settle for choice yens 'kat. The gin yen, the trade dollar and one more yen are the top three toughest coins. I see a counterstamped offered in great conditions quite often, but I don't see a slot for it in the album.
Here's what crossed my mind for the tough yens: I sometimes see yens of MS64-65 quality, in holders UNC details, scratched and the scratch is so minor that I prefer them hands down to a 62-63. If I'm lucky I'll get a superb , very slightly scratched for the album, and few people will notice. That's the advantage of choosing your coins for a real old style album (and not a virtual one as offered by PCGS for registry sets that have been TrueViewed).
It will still be a ¥70-¥100000 purchase. Each. More for the gin yen. I leave them for last to have no excuse to try to buy lesser quality coins.
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Nice Japanese pickups. Those photo certificates bring back memories. It was a big chore to shoot, print, cut and laminate those things all on my own way back when (2007 or 2008 I think?).
By the way, I gave you a shout out in a recent interview I had in The Numismatist magazine. I can DM it to you if you're interested.
Phil Arnold
Director of Photography, GreatCollections
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The stories are as precious as those coin images! Phil’s talent shows even with a $50 mini camera!