Japan 1898 (M31) 20 sen
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This specimen was lot 71167 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Santa Ana, CA, February 2020), where it sold for $65. The catalog description[1] noted, "JAPAN. 20 Sen, Year 31 (1898). Mutsuhito (Meiji). PCGS MS-63 Gold Shield. A bit conservatively graded in the opinion of this cataloger, the present specimen presents lustrous steel gray surfaces with little in the way of contact marks or hairlines." This type was struck 1874-1905 and most dates are common. The superseding type (KM Y30), issued 1906-11, was 4.05 g, 0.800 fine silver and was the last twenty sen.
Recorded mintage: 17,984,212, the highest mintage date.
Specification: 5.39 g, 0.800 fine silver, 23.5 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM Y24.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- The Catalog of Japanese Coins and Banknotes, Tokyo: JNDA (Japanese Numismatic Dealers Assn.), 2014.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, The February 2020 Collector's Choice sale: World and Ancient Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2020.
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