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I need some help identifying these coins. I've tried to identify some of them already. I would appreciate it if anyone can check the years I have and help me with the denominations/countries/years on the rest of them. Thanks!   Edited by arthrene
05/22/2008 10:07 pm
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Second row, first one is Taiwan. I've got lots of those!
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1st row, 3rd coin: Taiwan/ 2 chiao/ Year 39/ 1950
1st row, 4th coin: Taiwan/ 5 chiao/ Year 56/ 1967
2nd row, 1st coin: Taiwan/ 1 yuan / Year 70/ 1981
2nd row, 2nd coin: Taiwan/ 1 yuan / Year 62/ 1973
2nd row, 3rd coin: Taiwan/ 1 yuan / Year 49/ 1960
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I created this calculator and it does the calculations pretty well.
P.S. The korean coin 10 hwan with the year 4294 is actually 1961.
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gxseries,
I've used your calculator and have found it very helpful. I have problems with the first step which is trying to read the numbers off of the coins. I can handle it once I get past that point.
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Good point arthrene, I should make some samples to make lives easier. Any further recommendations are highly regarded.  |
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You read the numbers on the Taiwanese coins correctly, but you got them backwards. At that time the characters are read from right to left. Right now, Taiwan changed its banknotes and all other materials (books, newspaper)are now read in the Western format of left to right standard. Although, the coins are still read in the traditional format.
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05/24/2008 2:44 pm
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hc8604,
I have some friends that speak Japanese help me with those. I just kinda took their work on it. Thanks!
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No problem, I am not sure about the other coins. Some of them are Japanese, but I am not familiar with the year of their emperor. The first one on the 1st row is modern and rest looks to me around ww2 period.
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The usual hint is that the letter "year" is the last character. As far as I can see, the Japanese years are Showa and Heisei.
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Numbering left to right, top to bottom: #1: Japan 1 yen, Heisei First Year (= 1989 AD). Gxseries doesn't mention it on his calendar conversion site, but for Year 1 of an emperor's reign, they use the character "gan", meaning "first", rather than the usual "ichi", meaning "one". #2: Japan 10 sen, Showa Year 15 (=1940 AD). Another example of the need to get the year around "the right way". the characters for 10 and 5 would be around the other way for "50". #3 to #7: answered by hc8604. #8: Curious. One side says "1 wen" (or 1 cash), not sure what the four characters on the other side are, except for the top one which appears to be "dai", meaning "great, large" in both Chinese and Japanese. I can't spot an actual coin like this in the China, Japan or Vietnam listings; maybe it's a token? #9: Japan 1 sen, Showa year 12 (= 1937). #10: you seem to have this one identified.  #11: Japan 5 sen, Showa Year 17 (= 1942). I too get confused by reading East Asian date-numerals sometimes. I find the easiest thing to do is to try to read it as one date, then look up Krause to see if I can find a coin that looks anything like that for that date. If I can't, then I've probably read the date wrong so I go back and rearrange the date until I get it right. 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
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Thank you all for the help! One final question, on #10 (10 Hwan from South Korea), what is the Christian date for 4294?
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arthrene, I answered that earlier on, 4294 just refers to 1961.
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#8 has now been identified, in this thread: China (Empire) 1 cash c.1909, KM/Y# 25. 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
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Thanks Sap! BTW, how do you put a link in the words like in "this thread"?
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