101800 | JAPAN. Okinawa. Gyokusendo Cave brass Token.

101800  |  JAPAN. Okinawa. Gyokusendo Cave brass Token. Issued circa 1995 (31mm, 12.24 g, 12h).

 

Facing human skull; 死者の谷 (valley of the dead) below; all within inner ring / 玉泉洞 (Gyokusendo Cave), stylized rendering of the Blue Fountain, showing the cave's many stalactites and underground lakes. Edge: A few light marks, otherwise plain.

 

Mint State. Brassy-yellow surfaces, with some brilliance in the fields. Possibly used as a pass for the natural wonder first discovered in 1967, featuring a limestone cave grown upon a coral reef.

 

Upload: 15 March 2023.