WWII Find (Bullet Through Coin??)

[Dave N Japan]

Found this coin many years ago and have been wanting to put it on and get you guys opinion!
Found this Japanese Aluminum 1942 coin in the south of the island where a battle took place in 1945. When I dug it, it was in the area that a battle had taken place.. There was also spent rounds in the area. Did not think much of it! Thought maybe it had been hit by a machine or something and was not sure what year it was from at that time.
Got it home and looked at it real good and got to thinking about the size of the hole...Took one of the rounds that I found that same day and fit it against the hole..."Perfect fit" and the aluminum is melted around the edge of the hole as if something hot had hit it.
My question is what is more probable... was the coin on the man when he got shot or was it lost on the ground and just happen to get hit by a stray round?
My thought is that it stood a better chance of being in a pocket and getting hit than being lost and then being hit on the ground!
Anyway, It is small but intresting!

[diggummup]

Ouch! I gotta go with,it was probably in his pocket when it was stuck.Odds are against it being hit while laying on the ground,just my guess.I found a quarter once that had been shot ,but it didn't go all the way through it and it wasn't from a battlefield.Cool find!

[hollowpointred]

thats an amazing find! i would have to think it was in a soldiers pocket when he got hit. the odds of it being in the ground already are probably unbelievable! it kind of makes you wonder what happened to the guy that was carrying it when it got that way?! thanks for posting it!

[Dave N Japan]

Kind of glad it was Japanese and not American, even if it is sad to think about anyone getting killed. These guys were just doing their job on both sides... My uncle left a scrapbook to me and it had many pictures of his friends and most say killed in Okinawa and the date on the bottom.. My uncle made it, but was killed a year later in a motorcycle accident! Those things will kill you faster than anything!

[Real de Tayopa Tropical Tramp]

=Dave N Japan
Kind of glad it was Japanese and not American, even if it is sad to think about anyone getting killed. These guys were just doing their job on both sides
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A) I agree, but then the military was/is composed of the citizenry, and as such, we had/have many different sets of morals. The Japanese did some particularly nasty things in WW-2, notably Nanking, the Allied prison camps in northern China, Burma, etc., etc. I have no particular hate anger etc. against the Japanese, Germans, or whomever, in fact my adopted sister (1942) was full blooded Japanese, a beautiful gal , sigh, a shame that she was family, orig name was Mitsuki Nakamura.

Hey if one hates former enemies then one has to hate the entire world, since many former enemies became allies , and later enemies again then allies, and on and on---hehehe.

As for the former possessor of that coin, I can only hope that he was either killed outright or taken prisoner and given good treatment. If still alive, I bet he has one heck of a limp.


Till Eulenspiegle de La Mancha

[trk5capt]

Dave, If Not Used For Target Practice, Would Have Most Likely Would Have Been Hit In Pocket. trk5capt...

[tinpan]

hi dave,great find and which pocket was the the coin in.lol


tinpan

[Boobydoo]

This find surely makes you think of the history of it.
Not a normal find for sure. I have found plenty of shot through coins, but none rank with this find. Congrats my friend, good luck in your searches!

Smiles!
BDoo

[Southcacalaky]

Interesting find there, HH Art...

[MICHU]

did you know that is 5 yen? we say that "goen" in Japanese. "goen" is also means good luck in Japanese, just different Kanji. ppl give "goen" for luck. gave me goose bumps...

[CRUSADER]

Target practice found many coins in the UK (not battle sites) with bullet marks.

[houndhunter53]

WOW I wonder how that felt ouch!!