Money box

[kissakai]

Are any of these coins of any interest? I've had this box for quite a long time

 

[Michaelr]

Don’t have a clue what they are but I like them. They would probably look good sitting on top of my Tansu along side of my beautiful Tanto.  Have a great day.     MikeR

[Fuuten]

Seems like a chest with lacquer work? This one has a design featuring coins but there are countless types and subjects. I'm not sure the coins and plaques here are lacquer themselves but they could be.

 

I can't put my finger on it but the work makes me lean more to Chinese than Japanese but I'm not sure.

[PietroParis]

The lacquered decoration depicts Takaramono (treasures), a classic Japanese motif. They are collected on the last page of volume 3 of Hokusai's Manga:

 

[Bugyotsuji]

Grev, when you tap the coins, are they cold, solid, metallic, real coins, or created out of lacquer to look like coins?

 

If they are real, they are worth something. The large rectangular silver 一分銀 Ichibu Gin are collector items, as is the little gold 二朱金 Ni-Shu Kin. (Another possibility is that they were recreated specially for this box creation in copper, and gilded or otherwise treated to look like real old coins.)

[John A Stuart]

Scroll down a tad and you'll see a chart and some of my coins related. They are collected, some expensive, but, not rare. John

new_page_12.htm. (johnstuart.biz)

[kissakai]

Thanks for the info

I tried tapping the coins but can't be sure if metal but they they are cold on my tongue and they look and feel real

 

[vajo]

These are meji silver coins

 

 

Looks like the same as yours copper ones.

 

 

[kissakai]

These are identical Chris

 

[Bugyotsuji]

Not quite identical, Grev. Each minting showed a slight variation. One of the stars on an Ichibu-Gin is always upside down for example, and the positioning of that odd one out changed by date. None of these were minted after 1869, right at the very beginning of Meiji.

 

From the position of the stars, Chris's one above is a Tempo example, worth around 70 USD. (If I've read the chart right!)