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JAPAN: Nagasaki Trade Coinage, LOT of 20 AE genho tsuho

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / World Coins - Asia & Middle-East Start Price:55.00 USD Estimated At:80.00 - 120.00 USD
JAPAN: Nagasaki Trade Coinage, LOT of 20 AE genho tsuho
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130.00USD+ (26.00) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2023 Mar 21 @ 13:10UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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JAPAN: Nagasaki Trade Coinage, LOT of 20 AE genho tsuho, cast 1659-85 at the Nakajima mint in Nagasaki specifically to pay Dutch and Chinese traders; average circulated conditions; retail value $250, lot of 20 pieces. Under the Tokugawa shogunate, Japan enforced a strict isolationist policy (sakoku) and forbade the entrance of outsider. Foreign trade was only allowed on Dejima, a 120 x 75m (390 x 250ft) artificial island in the Nagasaki Bay connected to the mainland by a single bridge. With the exception of Japanese traders and courtesans, contact with foreign trader was strictly forbidden, as was the export of Kan'ei Tsuho coins and maps of Japan.