Trying To Date This Japanese Coin...

Well have you asked them out for coffee yet?

In the Japanese dating, "year one" is written "Gen" which means start or beginning. In Showa's case, year 2 started on January 1, 1927, when he had been in office for about a week. It's a little confusing at first, but just add one *less* than the year to his start date.

And the character is "nen" which means "year". Think of the nlegend as reading "Showa xxth year"

Glad so see others taking interest in Japanese coins!