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 Posted 02/07/2009  11:49 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add elsjls to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
How can I Tell the date on this ten yen?
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 Posted 02/07/2009  11:54 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add DL20K to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Showa 29 (1954)

Below the "10" first two characters denote the era name, next three are the date itself - 2, 10, 9 (should be read as 2*10+9=29) and the last one means "year".

And it's easy to remember that Showa 20 = 1945.
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 Posted 02/07/2009  1:43 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add elsjls to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks I did not even know where to look for the date.
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No problem
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I have always thought that these were good looking coins.
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