Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 1320. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JAPAN, National coinage. Bunsei Era. 1818-1830. AV Bunsei Koban Kin (13.08 g, 12h). Edo mint. Paulownia flower patterns (go-shichi-no-kiri) flowers in fan shapes above cartouches containing value and name and signature of kinza manager, Goto Shozaburo Mitsutsugu / Four official punchmarks: central imperial mark; above, key era-designator; to lower left, mintmasters’ marks; two chopmarks. JNDA 09-20; Jacobs & Vermeule B106; KM C#22a. VF, traces of coppery toning.