Japanese Year Å.ƒ On Coins. But Why?

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augsburger Pillar of the Community Germany 1064 Posts	Posted 02/16/2014 06:34 am So I came back from Japan last week, and then threw some of my coins by the bed and looked at one yesterday and saw the year was å¹³æˆå.ƒå¹´, which I know is year 1, 1989. The question I have why do they use this instead of ä¸€? Report this Post to the Staff

trout1105 Pillar of the Community Australia 7096 Posts	Posted 02/16/2014 06:38 am Maybe its because they are Japanese coins and the Japanese read dates this way Report this Post to the Staff
mgillette Valued Member United States 374 Posts	Posted 02/16/2014 07:42 am My guess would be that the kanji å.ƒ has more significance as meaning the origin - origin of the å¹³æˆ Heisei era. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16845 Posts	Posted 02/16/2014 09:48 am I can't say I've ever heard any explanation of why they use a different character for "first" for Year 1 rather than the common numeral for 1. It might have something to do with the fact that "year 1" of an emperor's reign is not intended to be an entire year, but just the piece of the Gregorian calendar year that remains after the old emperor dies and the new one ascends the throne. The year AD 1912, for example, is known as Meiji Year 45 up until the Meiji emperor dies on July 30 1912, and Taisho Year 1 afterwards. 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
gxseries Pillar of the Community Australia 3831 Posts	Posted 02/18/2014 6:14 pm The reason why the character "Gan" is used is to represent the "first year of reign" instead of "one whole year of reign". This appears on Chinese, Korean and Japanese coins. My partial coin collection http://www.omnicoin.com/collection/gxseries My numismatics articles and collection: http://www.gxseries.com/numis/numis_index.htm Regularly updated at least once a month. Report this Post to the Staff
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