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A company in Kyoto found thousands of rare ceramic coins made during metal shortages of the 1940s and believed to have been ...

MAEBASHI--Archaeologists uncovered an estimated 100,000 ancient coins ... large residences of important people in medieval Japan, the coins were likely hastily buried, perhaps for safekeeping ...

In a rare find, the Japanese Mint Bureau has acquired 15 boxes containing 500,000 ceramic coins. Previously thought to have ...

Archaeologists found a trove of 100,000 ancient coins at an excavation site in Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture, in central Japan on November 3, the national newspaper Asahi Shimbun reported ...