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Numismatics
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Artist: Unknown

5 Momme Coin from Meiwa Period

1765

Silver

18.03 g, 12:00, 44.7 × 22.1 mm
Transfer from the Yale University Library, Numismatic Collection, 2001, Gift of Dr. John G. Adams, B.A. 1874
2001.87.34166
Geography: 
Made in Japan
Status: 
By appointment
Culture: 
Japanese
Period: 
Meiwa
Classification: 
Numismatics
Provenance: 

Dr. John G. Adams, to about 1900; Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn., from about 1900 to 2001; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

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