Nice little surprise while dumping

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Numismaniac

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Update!!!

Just finished the dump, and there was another 1964 FDR in the reject slot when I got done.

Wow...
 

vpnavy

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Nice find - I'm still looking but no joy so far Numismaniac!
 

AC1955

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Only finds for me: a Japanese 10 Yen and a Chuckie Cheese token. :BangHead: Nice finds on your part!

Anita
 

sagittarius98

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Only finds for me: a Japanese 10 Yen and a Chuckie Cheese token. :BangHead: Nice finds on your part!

Anita

What date is the Japanese 10 yen?

The date is under the "10", read from left to right, the first characters will be for the Emperor. You just need to tell me the numbers, no need to convert to our dates.

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bpt233506

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^^ pretty sure sagittarius' farts have more coin knowledge than you..

And it's Japanese..

My mistake....looks like both languages share the same characters for numerals. Don't see what characters for numbers has to do with coins?
 

FormerTeller

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My mistake....looks like both languages share the same characters for numerals. Don't see what characters for numbers has to do with coins?

You are correct. Most Chinese people can read written Japanese language, and I assume vice versa. Definitely not true for the spoken language though...
 

Nydus Touch

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That coin is 100% Japanese without a doubt. I speak Chinese and yes: the languages share a lot of characters. The numbers Sagittarius provided are at least true of Chinese. They probably mean the same thing in Japanese: these two things are not mutually exclusive. The three characters at the top, 日本国, basically mean: land of the sun or land of the rising sun. This makes total sense. The first of the two characters at the bottom is 十 meaning 10 and by way of google search for "Japanese character for yen" the second character at the bottom is exactly that: 円. As far as the other side goes: if we had the characters 三十 by themselves, out of the context of this coin: we would have the number 30. I cannot sight read the other characters on that side of the coin and I do not know Kanji, so I would not want to venture a guess on what all that means.
 

hotrod

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"Some near dates."

Can u sell these???????????
 

DaytonaRacer

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Very nice finds! Today when I dumped I found in the reject chute 3 clad dimes (one was totally mangled), 3 non-wheat Lincolns, 1983 British pound, 1999 British 5 Pence, and 1 dime-sized metal slug that read "WBC"
 

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