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I have this 20 sen coin but I can't read Japanese so I don't know what date it is. Anybody able to help?
It's pretty gunky but other than the gunk the coin is in decent shape. I know that you're never supposed to clean a coin but is there a gentle way to just get gunk off?
TIA

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1887.

dateconverter.net

Edit, fat fingered the date. I can even read Japanese so that was embarrassing. That's what I get for being in a hurry and trying to make a post before I go out the door.
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I think its 1887. See if I got the correct characters.
http://dateconverter.net/japanese/%...98%8E/?hl=en
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Meiji 20, 1887.
I made a nice lookup table for "how to read Japanese dates" here on CCF a while back. Have to find it again.
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