1176

JAPAN: Keio, 1865-1868, AE 50 mon (10.71g), Hosogaya Mint in Mito, Hitachi Province, VF

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / World Coins - Asia & Middle-East Start Price:200.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 300.00 USD
JAPAN: Keio, 1865-1868, AE 50 mon (10.71g), Hosogaya Mint in Mito, Hitachi Province, VF
SOLD
200.00USD+ buyer's premium
This item SOLD at 2026 Jan 23 @ 15:11UTC-08:00 : PST/AKDT
SPENDING LIMITS - If you need a higher spending limit please email us at payments@stevealbum.com

BUYER'S PREMIUM - The Buyer's Premium is $20 per lot or 20% of the hammer price, whichever amount is greater.
JAPAN: Keio, 1865-1868, AE 50 mon (10.71g), 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, minor natural casting defect, VF. 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.