Mon from Ashio | Yale University Art Gallery

1741

Medium: Brass
Dimensions: 3.16 g, 12:00, 23.9 mm
Credit Line: Transfer from the Yale University Library, Numismatic Collection, 2001, Gift of Mrs. N. Porter
Accession Number: 2001.87.32522
Geography: Made in Ashio, Japan
Culture: Japanese
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Classification: Numismatics
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Numismatics

Obverse Description

Obverse Description: KAN EI TSU HO reading top-bottom, right-left and square hole in the center

Reverse Description: Ashio mint mark

Provenance

Mrs. N Porter, to December 1870; Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn., 1870–2001; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Chester L. Krause, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701–1800 (Iola, Wis.: Krause Publications, 1993),

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Additional information

Japanese mon, coins, money

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