Japan 1911 (M44) 20 sen
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This specimen was lot 877 in Stephen Album sale 30 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2018), where it did not sell. The catalog description[1] noted, "JAPAN: Meiji, 1867-1912, AR 20 sen, year 44 (1911), rare date, low mintage of 500,000, EF, RR." This is the final date of a type struck 1906-11 as part of the general reduced weight silver coinage. The silver ten and fifty sen were similarly shrunk. Altho the ten sen was struck until 1946 and the fifty sen until 1948, the twenty sen was not issued again.
Recorded mintage: 500,000.
Specification: 4.05 g, 0.800 fine silver.
Catalog reference: Y-30.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- The Catalog of Japanese Coins and Banknotes, Tokyo: JNDA (Japanese Numismatic Dealers Assn.), 2014.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 30, featuring the George Anderson Collection of Tibetan Coins, the Dr. John W. Lund Collection of Swedish Coins and the Mike Edwards Collection, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2018.
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