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| Neat WWII Japanese Notes - Overstamp And Short Snorter
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ChiefLittleFish
New Member
United States
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 Posted 11/10/2023 10:36 pm
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I can't tell if the first one is stamped or typed. I've always thought it was one of those secretarial-type stamps since I figured typing on at that angle would have been difficult.
All I have really been able to find on the 10 Yen is the one name that says VR-11 beside it. The largest division of the Naval Air Transport Service during WWII, operating in the South Pacific. That and the USN designator lower down suggests to me that it likely belonged to a Navy serviceman. |
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| Question About 1971 S Eisenhower Silver Dollar.
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ChiefLittleFish
New Member
United States
16 Posts |
Posted 11/09/2023 2:57 pm
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| I have heard of a rumour from some mint employees that there may have been a handful of test strikes of them on 90% silver planchets, similar to the supposed 1964 peace dollars. However there are no records we have to support this, and they would all have been presumably destroyed anyways. Not sure I believe it either, but that would be the only way. |
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| Well, I Figure I Could Post An Intro Here
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ChiefLittleFish
New Member
United States
16 Posts |
Posted 11/08/2023 3:08 pm
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Since I've already made a couple of posts on the forum, but not hereabouts, it might be good to put out some basic info about me;
I've been collecting for about 15 years now. I started off with U.S. coins, but dead presidents and buildings really weren't too interesting though (the early stuff (Lib Seated and earlier) were nice, but decent examples were mostly out of my price range as a teenager. I was drawn to the more natural elements of Canadian coinage, and themes that they more closely align with my families' heritage. Now the only U.S. issues I care about are Sacagawea Dollars, a handful of type coins, and some medal/tokens series. Canadian I go for all circulating issues (but not all die varieties and such). Tokens and bills too, but those are a slower process.
I collect Japanese pieces also, and type coins from GB and the other dominions. Some other assorted countries from earlier eras too. All circulating coins, nothing modern. I will pick up some modern and/or NCLT issues if I find them interesting, but never expand that to go further with a certain countries' coins (Like those Scooby-Doo coins from Niue &c, but there's no way I'm doing a Niue type set!) |
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| Neat WWII Japanese Notes - Overstamp And Short Snorter
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ChiefLittleFish
New Member
United States
16 Posts |
Posted 11/08/2023 12:25 am
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I have two interesting Japanese banknotes from the era of WWII.
The first one I haven't seen other examples of it, but a 50 sen note with an ink stamp commemorating the Japanese Surrender in Tokyo Bay on 2 September 1945. Not the best condition, and has tape on the edges, but I'm guessing it might've been something some Americans did for the occasion. Any info would be interesting to learn.
The second, a 10 Yen note, catalog P#40, doesn't look like much on the face, but the back shows it to be a neat little short snorter, one of the few I have seen on a Japanese note. I haven't tried narrowing down who it was owned by or where it might've travelled, but I still think it's really neat!
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| By The Way Does Anyone Else Keep And Collect Canadian Nickels
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ChiefLittleFish
New Member
United States
16 Posts |
Posted 10/30/2023 1:12 pm
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I have a few collections of them, many of which are from circulation. I like the old Whitman bookshelf albums for early Canadian, but they only go up until the mid-1960s. Lighthouse makes new albums for Canadian coins. Unfortunately neither of them are readily update-able - the bookshelf albums are bound, and I don't believe Lighthouse is making additional insert pages yet.
Of course, I have plenty of extras from searching, so I keep any nickel ones in tubes in one of those tube boxes (holds 50 rolls of 40 coins each). Organised by year where I have enough, organised by type otherwise (pre-50s). Newer CuNi and steel ones I try to get back up to Canada |
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