Moneta
Registered: August 2005
Location: Arizona USA
Posts: 2,372
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HUNAN SOVIET: AE 20 cash, ND (1931), countermarked hammer & sickle within five-pointed star on Hunan Province Y-400 type, Fine to Very Fine on worn host, RR. The only reference to these were from the 'Money Company' coin auction of September 1984 and a Gregory G. Brunk article in the Numismatics International "Bulletin" of July/August 2009. This coin was picked from bags containing 30,000 coins put aside during WWII as the Japanese were melting Chinese coppers for the war effort. Only 100 of these countermarked pieces were found in the bags on various host coins of which about 20% had clear countermarks. This is among the best in the group. [description from Stephen Album Auction 13 Lot#983; May 19 2012]. I was outbid, the lot sold for better than $750.
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