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Hong Kong Signature Sale 3065 28 Jun 2018
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Showa brass Specimen Pattern 10 Sen Year 21 (1946) SP63 PCGS, KM-Pn80. Wonderfully preserved with sharp devices and almost impeccable fields with only a tiny contact mark beneath the upper wheat stalk on the reverse. Identical design to the 22mm aluminum circulation type of Showa 20 and 21, this example is struck in brass on a 19mm flan. This piece is an incredible rarity as it is one of presumably only two known. The sibling we sold in our September 2011 auction of the Dr. Norman Jacobs Collection of Japanese and Korean Coins (Lot # 24320). A pair with an incredible story behind their existence as recorded by our 2011 notes: "Norman Jacobs left a note with this piece stating that he visited the Osaka Mint shortly before leaving Japan in 1946. During the visit he saw many original bags of this exact coin coin, apparently ready for issue. He was given two pieces, one for himself, and one for a fellow collector. He later heard that the coins were never released, and apparently all of the coins he saw in the bags, and any other examples, were melted. Mr. Jacobs' friend sold his coin in the 1950's. We know of no other example. From this story, it may not actually be a pattern, but rather a coin intended for circulation, and never released."
HID02901242017
Estimate: 3000-5000 USD
Showa brass Specimen Pattern 10 Sen Year 21 (1946) SP63 PCGS, KM-Pn80. Wonderfully preserved with sharp devices and almost impeccable fields with only a tiny contact mark beneath the upper wheat stalk on the reverse. Identical design to the 22mm aluminum circulation type of Showa 20 and 21, this example is struck in brass on a 19mm flan. This piece is an incredible rarity as it is one of presumably only two known. The sibling we sold in our September 2011 auction of the Dr. Norman Jacobs Collection of Japanese and Korean Coins (Lot # 24320). A pair with an incredible story behind their existence as recorded by our 2011 notes: "Norman Jacobs left a note with this piece stating that he visited the Osaka Mint shortly before leaving Japan in 1946. During the visit he saw many original bags of this exact coin coin, apparently ready for issue. He was given two pieces, one for himself, and one for a fellow collector. He later heard that the coins were never released, and apparently all of the coins he saw in the bags, and any other examples, were melted. Mr. Jacobs' friend sold his coin in the 1950's. We know of no other example. From this story, it may not actually be a pattern, but rather a coin intended for circulation, and never released."
HID02901242017
Estimate: 3000-5000 USD