help with coin identification

yawnmoth wrote:
On Feb 10, 1:07 pm, "Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote:
yawnmoth wrote:
On Feb 9, 8:12 pm, yawnmoth wrote:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/3171741...tp://www.flick...

The coin with the hole in it is a five yen Japanese coin. There's
also a single Japanese one yen coin in the pictures, but there are
3x other coins - seemingly of the same type - that I can't
identify. There's what appears to be a dove or a chicken on one
side and a building that looks a bit like the US state capital on
the other side.

Any ideas?

Thanks, Mr. Jaggers and Ken Barr!

Could I suggest you try to purchase a copy of the Krause Standard
Catalog of World Coins? A used copy might set you back a ten-spot,
but would be well worth your while to acquire.

I actually have been consulting that. Though I've made quite a few
posts here trying to get coins identified there are many many more
coins I've not posted about because I have been able to identify them.

The problem is when you're completely off base. Some earlier posts
I've made have been about coins that were apparently from Pakistan and
Israel and in those cases it never occurred to me to look up those
countries. For Pakistan, I figured it was some country in the middle
east, like Yemen, Qater, Iran, Iraq. Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Egypt,
Syria, etc. Pakistan just did not occur to me. Same thing for the
Israeli coin. Because it was aluminum, I figured (incorrectly) that
it was from southeast Asia.

That said, for the coins in this thread, I should have seen them. I
guess I just glossed over them or something. I thought they might
have been from Vietnam, Korea, China. Taiwan, Singapore, etc. I don't
know what all countries use kanji and am confident I'm, at times, even
managing to misidentify kanji.

For example, I have some coins from Ethiopia. Apparently they use
Ge'ez script that I thought, for the longest, was Arabic. The only
reason I even looked up Ethiopia was because it occurred to me that
the person I got the coins from had been there and that I hadn't yet
found any Ethiopian coins. Well, in point of fact, I actually had
found Ethiopian coins, but I just hadn't realized it.

Collecting and studying coins of the world helps one learn things about that
world that simply do not come within the view of the great majority of the
population. As the late, great Richard Yeo once said in his famous coin
books, "The quest is the thing." Sounds as if you're getting a good
education. Keep up the good work!

James