| Added by |
 Bart Perdieus
|
| In personal collections | 9 |
| General Description | Tanegashima (種子島?) is an island lying to the south of Kyushu, in southern Japan, and is part of Kagoshima Prefecture. The island is the second largest of the Ōsumi Islands. This island is celebrated as the site of the first known contact of Europe and the Japanese, in 1543. A Ryukyuan trading post had been established there several decades earlier, and all traffic from the Ryukyus to Kagoshima on Kyushu, in southern Japan, was obliged to pass through this station. Thus it was that the Portuguese ship, having been blown off course from China to Okinawa made their way to Tanegashima, and not directly to Japan proper. |
| Catalog code | KM#665 |
| Mintage | 1,000,000 |
| Diameter | 36.00 mm |
| Thickness | 2.80 mm |
| Weight | 21.2800 g |
| Material | Copper-Nickel |
| Orientation | Coin |
| Mint | Portugal - Lisbon |
| Edge Type | reeded |
| Designer | E. Byrne |
|
Catalog prices *what it means? |
XF $1.50 UNC $4.50 |
