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Japan Prefectures Series
LouisCamp
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Anyone going to collect this series? They look nice. Wonder if Panda's price is good?
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<< <i>This is part of the plan for Canadian world domination, isn't it? >>
Yea, verily.
The Canadians started the provincial 25 cent coin program and got other nations to follow. Now the US is so busy collecting State Quarters that the border is totally unprotected!
I may buy the Hiroshima, Yamaguchi and Ehime Prefecture coins if the designs are nice enough. I'm so sentimental.
Obscurum per obscurius
<< <i>Shiro, you are one of the very few who really know what the Illuminati of the RCM are actually up to. >>
The true power up here, in Canada, is the Turtle Club
Are you a turtle?
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<< <i>Shiro, you are one of the very few who really know what the Illuminati of the RCM are actually up to. >>
The true power up here, in Canada, is the Turtle Club
Are you a turtle? >>
It's not that easy bein' green;
Having to spend each day the color of the leaves.
When I think it could be nicer being red, or yellow or gold-
or something much more colorful like that.
It's not easy bein' green.
It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things.
And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water- or stars in the sky.
But green's the color of Spring.
And green can be cool and friendly-like.
And green can be big like an ocean, or important like a mountain, or tall like a tree.
When green is all there is to be
It could make you wonder why, but why wonder why? Wonder,
I am green and it'll do fine, it's beautiful!
And I think it's what I want to be.
Obscurum per obscurius
<< <i>Shiro, you are one of the very few who really know what the Illuminati of the RCM are actually up to. >>
The Japanese are in cahoots with the Canadian World Domination Conspiracy. They've introduced a rapper into our pop culture with the name "50 Cent", but they have us pronounce it "50 Sen". I have to look into this more.
Obscurum per obscurius
It's been 8 years, and I still haven't started collecting the Prefecture series. Oy!
Obscurum per obscurius
And the Turtle Club is still the only true power up here on Canada
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Forget the Prefecture Commems! And forget Canada!
NY is where it's at. There are some darn good Japanese coins in the upcoming NYINC HA auction!
Shhhh, don't tell them!
The colorized silver proofs don't/didn't catch my eye. I collected (& offered) the clad BU's when I could. Just not much interest here, and for overseas buyers, the international distributors have outrageous premiums. A few reasonably priced proof-clads of the 47 Prefecture Series are available now and then on eBay, not very much in demand there either.
I like the bi-color clad BU's a lot. Wish I could have collected more. At offices of the Japan Post, they would sell 3 uncirc/per person at face upon each issue. Got to do that once, fortunately 3 different issues were available at that post office that time. At the Tokyo branch sales office, I picked out the best card/blister pak of each Prefecture available in the store, July 2010. Here's a sampling:
2008 Shimane
2009 Four-coin set: Nagano, Niigata, Nara, and Ibaraki
2010 Fu-kui
Coins in the Prefectures Program have a common reverse. At certain angles of the business-strike clad, the number "60" appears (60th anniversary of re-organization into prefectures), but at other angles, it changes to the number "47". The "latent dual-image" is incorporated to deter counterfeiters (the 500 JPY coin is the highest denominated coin in circulation).
Meanwhile, at most angles no number at all is visible in the center:
