Have No Idea From Asia ? (Id: Japan 50 Yen 1930)

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RWC112 Valued Member United States 218 Posts	Posted 09/28/2025 12:15 pm looking to Identify this coin 50? Report this Post to the Staff

tdziemia Pillar of the Community United States 7973 Posts	Posted 09/28/2025 12:19 pm Japan. You can go to Numista, search on Japan 50, and it will show up as you scroll through the "hits.". Since you have a lot of world coins to ID, it would be good to develop searching skills. Edited by tdziemia 09/28/2025 12:21 pm Report this Post to the Staff
RWC112 Valued Member United States 218 Posts	Posted 09/28/2025 12:25 pm https://en.numista.com/7313 Report this Post to the Staff
RWC112 Valued Member United States 218 Posts	Posted 09/28/2025 12:27 pm so what is the year? Report this Post to the Staff
MintedNotPrinted Pillar of the Community United States 1268 Posts	Posted 09/28/2025 12:35 pm Find where the date is on the coin using Numista as a reference, down in the table at the bottom is a translation (#19977;#21313;#24180; for example) for each date. Edit: Hmm, apologies, it appears Japanese characters aren't supported! Edited by MintedNotPrinted 09/28/2025 12:53 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Keith67 Pillar of the Community United States 6656 Posts	Posted 09/28/2025 12:53 pm Quote: so what is the year? It's right there, on the link you posted Report this Post to the Staff
RWC112 Valued Member United States 218 Posts	Posted 09/28/2025 2:15 pm ok see it now 1930 Report this Post to the Staff
MintedNotPrinted Pillar of the Community United States 1268 Posts	Posted 09/28/2025 2:29 pm I think you're looking at Showa year 30, which is not 1930. In the table with price and mintage you'll find Japanese characters with translation for each date. The date for this coin, in Japanese, is under the denomination on the reverse. On your example there are four characters. I hope this helps, understanding how to read Numista listings is almost a requirement for cataloging a lot of world coins, short of having a library of reference material! Good luck Typically only a character or two will change year to year, you can compare various images of the same type online to find which characters change if you don't know what or where the date is. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16884 Posts	Posted 09/28/2025 6:48 pm The year on your coin is Showa Year 31, which would convert to AD 1956. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
jbuck Moderator United States 190660 Posts	Posted 09/29/2025 09:07 am Nice example! Coin Collector Since 1978 Avatar Old Avatar 7070 Eisenhower Australia Canada World CCF Members on eBay CCF eBay Search Engine Report this Post to the Staff
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