Old Silver Coin's
 

Cant find anything on google, nor ebay Any info would help on these coins
:D except for the old beat up 1930 silver Quarter dont know if its a good find or not, any one want to grade the 1930 silver coin just for fun.? Got lots and lots more to post.:D

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The quarter is not that bad, I've seen a lot worse. I would give it a grade of Fair 12.

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I don't know if im mistaken or not, I saw one selling for $2,500 could that be a MS-67
:smokin:

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i could be...


you just have to find the "right" grading service. :wink:

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ha, look at those strong fasces on that 1945 RSA coin. :D

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use wiki to look up the rulers and the coins too. most are pretty obvious, but I cant place the asian one.

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The Japanese one is a 50 sen coin from about 1924. Are you sure it's silver, not cupro-nickel? The lower-value 1, 5, 10-sen coins were changed to cupro-nickel in the twenties. Wikipedia just says that silver coinage ceased in 1938...

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Yes Iam very sure it's silver, So theres nothing on this coin, 50 sent 1924 are you sure its 1924 ?

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Anty it turnd out to be Japanese.:wink:

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"Ta Cheng" is the name of Hirohito's father's reign, from 1912 to 1925, so Ta Cheng 12 year would be about 1924. It SHOULD be silver according to Wikipedia-Japan-economy-currency...

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I thought that was called the Taisho era.

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Dunno. Do they read right to left in Japanese ?
The characters on the top of the coin in the photo on the left -in Chinese anyway , are something like "da ri ben" , right to left (this is the chinese pronunciation , though I think both Kanji and Hanzi use many of the same (in meaning anyway , if not pronunciation) Han characters. Ri Ben means Japan. Da would most commonly mean big.
At the bottom , again going right to left the characters would be "da zheng shi er nian?"-not sure about the nian (meaning 'year'), looks similar but may not be). Again "da" meaning big or great , "shi er" meaning 'twelve'. (though if it was meant to be read left to right it would be "er shi", or 'twenty':confused_ma:).
Not much of a help I know ,and just guessing about a japanese coin based on shared chinese characters. I like puzzles like this though , hopefully someone'll know for sure.Maybe we can ask GIMer Osaka what it says/is?

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That is what I thought yoshihito's reign was called as well. Ta Cheng sounds Chinese in origin ,not Japanese. But 'Ta Cheng' could be the same as the 'Da Zheng' I guessed at if it's just a pronunciation thing , ie. Pinyin vs Wade-Gilles (like Mao Tse-Tung versus Mao Zedong , or something like that) Perhaps the characters , while same in form and even meaning, are pronounced as 'Taisho' in Japanese? Ah , I'm just guessing. Can't wait to hear someone clear this up. Where is Osaka? Help us out buddy! Or maybe skirnir can shed some light?

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:D More silver coins from all over the world :D