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Date Japanese 1 Yen

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 Posted 09/11/2012  5:41 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add swisher 17 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Had several Japanese yen, I ID some from images on the internet, but could not Id this one. Need date.

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 Posted 09/11/2012  5:54 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Fuzzy317 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
think 1959

http://dateconverter.net/japanese/?hl=en#

plug in symbols to calculate
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I get 1959 also.

The kanji are rather stylized too so they don't look exactly like the kanji on the date convertor site.
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and this site goes the other way. Keying Western years and it converts to Japanese
http://www.allcalendars.net/Japanes...onverter.php
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To be thorough, the coin says "Showa era year 34" (Emperor Hirohito ruling) which converts to 1959.



Edit (stupidly misspelled emperor's name)
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Thanks of your reply's.
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