Lot 1062 HUNAN SOVIET: AE 20 cash, ND 40193141, countermarked hammer sickle within five-pointed star on Imperial Hu Poo 40Ministry of Finance41 Y-5 type struck at the Tianjin mint, very rare with perfectly clear countermark! VF to EF on worn host。 The only references to these were from the 39Money Company39 coin auction of September 1984 and a Gregory G。 Brunk article in the Numismatics International 34Bulletin34 of July/August 2009。 This coin was picked from bags containing 30,000 coins put aside during WWII as the Japanese were melting Chinese coppers for the war effort。 Only 100 of these countermarked pieces were found in the bags on various host coins of which about 20% had clear countermarks。