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Auction 46  18-21 May 2023
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Lot 1301

Starting price: 170 USD
Price realized: 650 USD
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JAPAN: Keio, 1865-1868, AE 50 mon (9.88g), Hosogaya Mint in Mito, Hitachi Province, H-7.4, JNDA-139.4, type known as a Mito Tora-sen (Mito Tiger Coin), cast in bronze, VF-EF. Legend in seal script translates as "Enrich the Country and Strengthen the Military." Cast at the Hosogaya Mito, Hitachi Province (present day Ibaraki-ken). The original cast in 1864 in iron was a local emergency coin used to pay the workmen at the financially troubled copper-coin mint in Mito. In 1867 copper-alloy was cast supposedly from bronze cannon which the daimyo (local feudal lord) had made out of temple bells with which to repel the western barbarians.

Estimate: 200-300 USD
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