1336-1860 Japanese Samurai/Shogun Era Mon 5 Coin Set

About this item

• Monetized By Government Of Japan (Historical).
• The coins will have some wear
• Comes With 3 x 1 Mon Coins, 1336- 1636 Pre Edo Coins. The mon was the currency of Japan from the Muromachi period in 1336 until the early Meiji period in 1870, co-circulating with the new sen until 1891. Dates would most likely be in the last 200 years.
• Comes With 1 x 4 and 11 Waves Mon Coin, 1768–1868 Kan'ei Tsūhō, In 1768 the chamberlain Tanuma Okitsugu commissioned the creation of a brass Kan'ei Tsūhō cash coin with a face value of 4 mon, the initial version was cast at the Fukugawa mint in the capital city of Edo and had an iconic design with 21 waves on its reverse, the following year the reverse design was changed to only have 11 waves and all following versions of the 4 mon Kan'ei Tsūhō had this design.
• Comes With 1 x 100 Mon Coin (Large Coin), 1835 -1956 Tenpō Tsūhō, The Tokugawa government started issuing the 100 mon coin in 1835 as a way to combat its fiscal deficit, but due to the debasement of the copper in the 100 mon denomination (5½ times a 1 mon Kan'ei Tsūhō coin) which lead to chronic inflation in commodity prices