Description
Country or authority: Japan
Year or date range: 1860–1869 (Man’en)
Denomination: 2 Shu
Composition: Gold
Ruler or portrait: Kōmei
Weight g: 0.68
Mint or mintmark: Kinza, Edo (modern Tokyo)
Catalogue references: C#18a; JNDA 09-44; Hartill 8.51
Obverse description: Paulownia crest within a fan-shaped outline above the vertical denomination 二朱 (two shu). Beaded border, partly interrupted at the edges.
Reverse description: Stylised inscription 光次 (Mitsutsugu), with a large kaō signature below, within a beaded border.
