BOOKS IN ENGLISH ON ORIENTAL COINS

First, let me mention that I started collecting oriental coins (mostly pre-Meiji Japanese coins) in the mid to late '70s. I learned quickly that books in the english language about oriental coins were really hard to come by.

I want to ask readers of The E-Sylum whether they own, or know of, or have any knowledge of, the scarcity of the following titles:

1. Anything written by Ramsden in Yokohama earlier this century on Oriental coins
2. The true rarity of Munro's "Coins of Japan", 1904 edition
3. Schjoth on Chinese Currency, original edition
4. Polder on pre-historical Japan
5. Original "Kann" on Chinese
6. Toda on Annamese

I have never seen Polder original...had half a dozen Ramsden... also same number of Munro...three original Schjoth...a few Kann... Toda never had... Feedback, please."

Wayne Homren, Editor

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The E-Sylum: Volume 3, Number 18, April 30, 2000, Article 4

BOOKS IN ENGLISH ON ORIENTAL COINS

Wayne Homren, Editor