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This is Page 9 of Kokin kousei, Shinsen zeni kagami (Corrected Against Past and Current Records, A New Selected Mirror of Cash Coins).
An earlier owner penciled some roman letters beside the Japanese, but a few on this page are incorrect. In column 2 down three he/she has written "RIN" but the character is "monme." The whole notation for that coin says "about 3 monme, " which was an amount of silver worth about 300 one-mon coins. In column 3 item two appears "RIN" and this is correct. However, item 3 below it has written "SEN." This is a mistake and should be read "fun" meaning one tenth of a monme. Sen appear first in the Meiji period (1868-1910) and did not exist in the Edo period when this book was made.
