Watch List notes:

Commemorative Medals, Japan, Pioneers and Worthies of the 19th and early 20th century, a set of 50 silver portrait medals, the reverse depicting an event from their life; including Iwakaski Yataro (1834 1885), founder of Mitsubishi; Soejima Taneomi (1828–1905), diplomat and statesman; Admiral Marquis Heihachiro Togo (1847-1934); Inoue Kaoru (1835-1915), statesman; Ii Naosuke (1815-1860), statesman, etc., each encapsulated and contained in a cloth-covered album, with printed certificate and details, each approx. 21gms., details stamped on edge, proof-like, brilliant mint state
Limited edition set. The dies were destroyed soon after the sets were minted, therefore rare.