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2009 5 Yen From Japan

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My wife came across this while vacuuming out her 2009 Toyota Camry. I wonder if a worker left it while building her car? Coins are where you find them!


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Does the car happen to have a coin slot or other money-container in it, by any chance?

There is a long-standing tradition in Japan about purses, wallets and similar things-designed-to-carry-money, that they should not be sold empty - they should come with a coin already in it, so the new owner of the purse might always have good luck. Not too dissimilar to the "find a penny, pick it up..." tradition you have over there in America, I suppose. The 5-yen coin seems to be the usual coin of choice to uphold this tradition, because the Japanese for "five yen" sounds the same as a phrase meaning "good fortune".

I once found in a deceased estate a Japanese-made coin purse that someone had been using to keep their foreign coins. Sewn into a little pouch in the side of the purse was one of these 5-yen coins, dating from the 1960s - and it looked very, very green and sickly, being as it had been in close physical contact with plasticized pseudo-leather for several decades.
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