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2 Shu 'Ko-Kōkin' Old Kōshūkin, Kichi-nishu
| Issuer | Kai Province (Takeda clan mint) |
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| Year | 1582 |
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| Value | 2 Shu = 1/8 Ryō |
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| Obverse description | Irregular hammered gold flan of roughly oval-to-round form, displaying a vertical column of stamped Chinese characters in traditional regular script (kaisho) rendered in sunken relief. Three characters are arranged vertically in the central field, reading top to bottom, accompanied by an additional character stamp partially visible toward the right margin of the flan. The surface exhibits characteristic tool-mark striations and shallow fissures consistent with hand-hammering of alloyed gold, typical of Sengoku-period provincial gold coinage. The flan edges are irregular and unfinished, reflecting the primitive striking technique employed by the Takeda clan mint of Kai Province. |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (traditional, regular script) |
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The Ko-Kōkin nishu was produced at the Takeda clan mint in Kai Province during one of the most compressed political collapses in Sengoku history. Oda Nobunaga's invasion of Kai in early 1582 destroyed Takeda Katsuyori's domain within weeks, and the clan was exterminated by the fourth month of that year. Coins struck at this mint in 1582 represent the final output of a defeated house — production almost certainly ceased before summer.
The "Kichi" designation marks this as an auspicious-grade piece within the Ko-Kōkin classification system, a quality distinction applied at the Takeda mint itself rather than by later cataloguers.