Foreign silver?!!

[tomsneck]

Got out New Year’s Day w a buddy for a nice afternoon hunt. I managed a unidentifiable cut copper and other bits. Well he found a newly cleared section of woods. And he calls me says he’s got a silver w funny symbols on it. So I dropped what I was doing and went to find him. So walking up it’s out of the hole and in top of the plug. From afar it looked like a quarter. But upon closer inspection

Have to say we weren’t expecting this coin. Lol. So cool. Im gonna start calling my little island foreign coin land.
Thanks for the look

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Cool coin, congratulations!

 

[Organicseekers]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1908-Japan-20-Sen-Silver-Coins-Pennies2Pounds-/223300944666

Nice find

 

[Yak1366]

Definitely Japanese. From my limited read so far, it may be late 1800's.

Very cool find, Congrats!!!

 

[Hawks88]

Nice find. Congrats

 

[Yak1366]

Reading Coin Dates

Good link on dating these.

1895 is my interpretation.

 

[Mackaydon]

Yak,
Excellent coin dating reference source; thanks.
Don.....

 

[Mackaydon]

Interesting; I read the third date character as a '6' making it 2X10 +6; ergo, 1867 +26 or 1893AD; just as shown in the last pic of "yak's" reference source.
Don..

 

[Relicific]

Very unique coin

 

[washingtonian]

Never seen anything like that, way to go on a neat find!

 

[Trezurehunter]

Nice coin find. That is a different one.

 

[Yak1366]

Yak,
Excellent coin dating reference source; thanks.
Don.....

Thanks Don!! I was trying to find the exact character pattern for the date by just going through google images, and lucked up on that perfect reference.

 

[Yak1366]

Interesting; I read the third date character as a '6' making it 2X10 +6; ergo, 1867 +26 or 1893AD; just as shown in the last pic of "yak's" reference source.
Don..

It's one of the two characters. I felt it was the 8 by the outward stroke of the lines. Maybe tomsneck can clarify the character for us.

Still a sweet silver find, Congrats!!!

 

[A2coins]

Nice find whenever I find foreign coin It looks like an ancient Myan coin lol. Well done

 

[Silvermonkey]

Nothing I love more than finding weird little coins! Getting it home and trying to ID it is more than half the fun. Congrats.

 

[tomsneck]

Hey all sorry for being out of touch. Thanks for all the love. Just got together with my friendship found it. Here is a better pic of the date