More Exciting than Gold

More Exciting than Gold

March 13, 2026

Japan Coins

While metal detectorist Angus James was searching an Australian gold rush-era campsite last month, he made an exciting discovery. He unearthed a nearly 200-year-old Japanese coin. The oblong, bronze specimen is a 100-mon tempo tsuho, commonly used in Japan in the mid-1800s.

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