Discovered 1 sen ceramic coin
A large number of ceramic coins manufactured by Shofu Industry Co., Ltd. (dissolved in Showa 42) during the war were discovered at Shofu Co., Ltd., and were handed over to the Mint. Due to the shortage of metal as a material for coinage during the war, about 15 million ceramic coins were manufactured, but at the end of the war, they were destroyed without actually being used, and are said to be "phantom coins.
Although the investigation is currently underway, it is expected that more than 500,000 1-sen ceramic coins have been delivered. It is also owned by the Mint, and I hope that the discovery of many ceramic coins will lead to new discoveries about the coin manufacturing situation at the end of the Pacific War.In the future, we plan to investigate the condition of the discovered ceramic coins in detail with reference to the materials remaining in the mint's collection, and we hope to elucidate the state of production at that time in more detail.
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