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JAPAN: Meiji, 1868-1912, AR yen, ND (year 21 [1888]), EF

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / World Coins - Asia & Middle-East Start Price:140.00 USD Estimated At:150.00 - 250.00 USD
JAPAN: Meiji, 1868-1912, AR yen, ND (year 21 [1888]), EF
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This item SOLD at 2023 May 19 @ 16:00UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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JAPAN: Meiji, 1868-1912, AR yen, ND (year 21 [1888]), Y-28a.2, with gin countermark left, hairlined, better host date, remains of faint ink chop, EF. In October 1897, Japan revalued the gold yen, and changed from a combination silver/gold standard to an exclusively gold standard. For the next six months silver yen were exchangeable for gold. Part of the demonetized silver coins were melted for use in minting subsidiary coins, and the rest were available for export to Taiwan, Korea and southern Manchuria, Shanghai or Hong Kong for use as bullion silver. Before being exported, they were countermarked with the character for silver (gin), in a circle, to prevent them from being returned to Japan for another shot at exchange for gold. The gin countermark appears in a specific position - to the left or right of the ichi (one) character on the reverse. Krause states that the main Mint at Osaka applied the mark on the left side, and the subsidiary Tokyo Mint applied it to the right.