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Hello. Any help identifying this coin would be greatly appreciated.

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The coin posted is a Japanese 2 Sen coin from Meiji year 15, or 1882.
Nice AU coin.

Reading Chinese characters on east Asian coins to identify them seem to be a challenge with many western collectors, but it is only a few characters that you have to know to correctly identify their date, type, etc.
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Quote:
but it is only a few characters


and the key is knowing which characters those are
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https://goccf.com/t/4272
This post about Japanese date conversion has some useful links.
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Thank you so much for your help. This is great information.
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