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I was in Japan last year. I found it quite hard to find the new 500 yen coin in circulation. It's seen as a nuisance as it's not readily accepted by vending machines despite in circulation for 3 years. (issued since 2021). Reiwa issued coins (except 100 and 500 yen) are surprisingly difficult to find despite being in a capital city.

I have managed to gather all 3 years of 500 yen... (500 yen makes it very expensive to do a complete year set!)

I'll try to take a photo of the 500 yen coins when I get a chance.

Thought I'd share a video of the production of the coin. This is not my video - one that I found online

1724 kopek aren't common but when two are offered on eBay at the same time. They look awfully similar in wear and planchet flaws...  both fake?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/165927988239

https://www.ebay.com/itm/195734057506

Nice videos!

Hi ViFi,

What are the tellsigns of soviet restrikes? Are there specific years or a specific literature that you would recommend?

Thank you

I admire your dedication to look out of the different varieties!

This is the first time I've seen anything like this

https://www.ebay.com/itm/373971739005?hash=item571273e17d%3Ag%3A0AQAAOSwmnNhxaOK&nma=true&si=2FHfksNa9e09Ge9Mwff70qBXoO8%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

What is an indication that this is a restrike struck in the Soviet era?

This set took me close to a decade to complete. It's because I wasn't prepared to pay top dollars and am happy to wait for one at a reasonable price.

Struck with the same planchets used for the Soviet coins - these were struck at Leningrad Mint

http://gxseries.com/numis/rus_new_type/tannu_tuva_r.jpg

Looks quite neat as a set. I thought I would complete the 1946 Spitsbergen set first before this. 

Link:

http://gxseries.com/numis/rus_new_type/tannu_tuva.htm

Uighurs or Uyghurs have been under the news for all sorts of "human right abuse" under the current Chinese regime. I shall avoid the political aspects of it but you can look it up and make your own conclusion.

Uighurs have tried to break apart from Xinjiang Province and it was a a short lasted regime for a mere 9 months in 1933. A couple of coins were struck and there are quite a few varieties known.

Numista shows a few:

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/first_east_turkestan_republic-1.html

I bought my first example and and I believe it is the most corroded 10 cash. I tried to find the 20 cash and that proved to be difficult and ended up getting another 10 cash. I did end up lucky with a 20 cash but had to do some preservation that didn't go too well. I believe back then, the first example that I purchased was around 30 dollar mark and the 20 cash was a bit dearer at 200 or so.

The rest came out from a hoard and that happened when I was out of work. I'll be honest - I thought I'll buy them and flip them as I thought they were undervalued. Sadly I only had enough to buy a bit over half of what was offered but I did end up with some nice examples. That would sound pretty unbelievable today - ebay doesn't even have that many examples on offer for starters!

In hand, I noticed that all 20 cash are overstruck and are not well researched. One of the 20 cash look like a crude fake but it seems to be a legitimate variety. The 10 cash on the other hand all seem to be struck on fresh planchets. I ended up keeping them all as I realized some of these coins are in much better condition that I've seen in the market. One of them is double struck which is pretty unusual and the other has a clean die crack however poorly conserved. Before you criticize about the green verdigris, they have already gone through a few rounds of Verdicare so it's the best they can be. They were much worse, believe it or not

Here are some examples of before and after:

http://gxseries.com/numis/preservation/china/uighurstan/preservation_uighurstan.htm

Prices today are just so absurd - who knows if the CCP is just hunting them down to just melt them from existing. Who knows, if it keeps going up at a rocket pace, I can sell and head for retirement! (dreaming). Better close up photos soon...

http://gxseries.com/ct/uighurstan_f.jpg

http://gxseries.com/ct/uighurstan_b.jpg

Feel free to post your example!

I don't feel good about it

Good to see you SMS! My apologies for not keeping in touch!

What happened to Art? I sent a postcard and it came back in one full circle.

I have been a bit too busy on my end and failed to keep in touch and haven't popped by here much.

It does look like a modern replica.

It looks like contemporary counterfeit. Still pretty neat.

Mine is much lower grade. Just happy to have an example in my collection

Send the "novodel" back for your money. They look like modern replicas

Reviving an old thread. Found this tribute struck by a Japanese private mint

Struck in 2000, mintage of just 1000. I guess this is the best I could get to the real thing.

I still find it intriguing that the Bank of Korea suspects that it was struck in Russia. Who knows - history can be interesting

Looks like it's from Nepal just from the fonts.

Was checking out random vids on youtube and saw this. It reminded me that it would be a perfect fit for Sigi's pyatak!

Thanks Alex for the explanation! That does make more sense. I don't think we will ever come across the truth of why this fascinating series got cancelled.

I did spend a bit too much on other coins and this did tip the edge - I shall behave for the rest of the year. I don't think I'll come across anything scarcer any time soon that is within affordable range.

You know I find it fascinating that this coin is supposedly a pattern yet is similar to the 1724 1 kopek. On top of it, the amount of varieties make it more interesting! 

It looks like my example is heavily circulated which made me wonder if this is a pattern coin or just accidentally released to circulation. 

I was googling about 1726 kopek and came across this thread.

I was actually looking for the 1724 kopek but am more than happy with this!

This is one of the coins that I have been hunting for years. Prices of many Chinese coins have escalated and even in the last couple of years, they have gone up quite fast! Have to sell off more duplicates in my collection...

Now the title "Taiwan" brings a hot political debate of its status - which is NOT the point of discussion. Instead I'll like to show a couple of historical coinage.

Taiwan was part of China until it was conceded to the Japanese (Treaty of Shimonoseki) during the late Qing dynasty in 1894-1895 (First Sino-Japanese war). Prior to this, there are some interesting numismatic coinage.

This is an early Taiwan province coin issued around KangXi era (~1667) and this is part of the poem series, issued by various provinces. This is one of the harder coins to find of this series. Note this has the character "Tai" of Taiwan.

In 1838-1850s, due to a shortage of silver coins, a batch of "Old Man" dollar coins were issued. These were often heavily chopmarked and are very scarce in ANY condition - easily a 4-5 figure coin. 

https://coinquest.com/cgi-bin/cq/coins.pl?coin=21003

The last coin can be challenging but more doable is a silver 7.2 candareens coin issued around 1893-94 before Taiwan got conceded to the Japanese.

Mine is scratched but I'm happy - this particular coin has been skyrocketing for the last few years.

The first coin after Taiwan called herself "Republic of China" is this

Note the text reads "Taiwan province" in the middle of the island.

History is interesting isn't it?

Wow this goes back a while back! Was scrolling through an auction site and saw this which reminded me of what I had.

Found something very similar that shows this, instead a silver pattern

https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=4151&lot=910

The original 1 ruble coin is struck in nickel copper (high resolution photo available)

http://cbr.ru/eng/cash_circulation/memorable_coins/coins_base/ShowCoins/?cat_num=5009-0001http://cbr.ru/eng/cash_circulation/memorable_coins/coins_base/ShowCoins/?cat_num=5009-0001

I still think what I have is likely to be a scarce pattern / prototype.

Just thought I'll compile the $2 coins that I pulled from circulation. I forgot to take photos of the 2016 decimal coinage and 2019 invitus games. I'm sure I found a Borobi the other day - probably lying around somewhere.

My personal 2 favorite coins are these:

Rest of the coins can be seen here.

http://gxseries.com/numis/australia/australia_commemorative_2_dollar.htm

Feel free to share your pictures!

Been doing some research - this does seem to be a rather uncommon coin. There is an example that shows that this is overstruck

https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=18588

But this is overstruck over a much earlier type.

https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=234392

I'm guessing that mine is struck on a later type of coin.

Pretty challenging!!!

Been way backlogged in cataloging. This is one of the more interesting ones. Xinjiang has been on the news, mostly for negative reasons.

Xinjiang seems to be a rather exotic place to me. Coins issued in the early 1900s had inscriptions in both Chinese and Arabic which I wished I could read.  

Coin of interest is this:

Poorly struck but a better image can be seen here:

https://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide/world/china-provincial-sinkiang-province-10-cash-y-b36.1-cuid-1047731-duid-1290525

No year on this coin unless it's written in Arabic. I'm suspecting it was issued around 1910 - 1920s.

I would love to know what the Arabic text is. The Chinese text I believe is

中華民國 銅錢 - Republic of China Copper Money

當紅錢十文 - Copper 10 cash
新疆喀造 - Struck in Xinjiang Kashgar

The interesting part of this coin is if you rotate it around at a right angle, it reveals this

http://gxseries.com/ct/sinkiang_rotated_small_f.jpg

The characters of "中" & "民" can be seen.

A better quality can be seen here:

http://gxseries.com/ct/sinkiang_rotated_f.jpg

A likely candidate of the original host could be this:

or this

Catalog value of this coin may not seem to be high but trust me, this does not appear in the market often. On top of this, all the examples that I have seen does not seem to suggest that this is an overstruck example. The only overstruck Xinjiang example that I am aware is the Uighurstan 20 cash over Xinjiang 10 cash.

Some thoughts on this or some reference book I should be getting?