Federal Reserve Bank of China (1941-1943)

Only struck from 1941 to 1943, this is a series that was issued under the Japanese occupation. Federal Reserve Bank of China was issuing coinage under the puppet government in Beijing. While no catalog as far as I know mentions where they were struck, it seems they might have been struck in Osaka mint, Japan as the planchets, edging (except 5 fen) and weight seem to match.

E Kann believes that it was struck at either Tientsin or Manchuria. Circulated for use in North China only.

Mintage of the Japanese 10 sen, 5 sen and 1 sen struck in the same era.

>>Album version<< - Really neat

10 sen	5 sen	1 sen
Edge: Reeded	Edge: Reeded	Edge: Smooth
Year Mass Mintage Showa 15 (1940) 1.50g 575,600,000 Showa 16 (1941) Showa 16 (1941) 1.20g 944,900,000 Showa 17 (1942) Showa 18 (1943) Showa 18 (1943) 1.00g 756,000,000	Year Mass Mintage Showa 15 (1940) 1.20g 410,020,460 Showa 16 (1941) Showa 16 (1941) 1.00g 478,023,877 Showa 17 (1942) Showa 18 (1943) 0.80g 276,493,742	Year Mass Mintage Showa 16 (1941) 0.65g 1,016,620,734 Showa 17 (1942) 0.65g 119,709,832 Showa 18 (1943) 0.65g 1,163,949,434 Showa 18 (1943) 0.55g 627,160,000

1941 1 jiao	1942 1 jiao	1943 1 jiao
1941 5 fen	1942 5 fen	1943 5 fen
1941 1 fen	1942 1 fen	1943 1 fen

Weight of my coins so far:

01 December, 2011