Can Someone Help Me With This Taiwanese Coin?

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christian_cyclist Valued Member United States 284 Posts	Posted 01/10/2009 01:36 am Edited the topic header to properly reflect that this is a Taiwanese coin! ----- At least I think it's Japanese. The characters look very similar to the 10 Yen coin identified earlier. So here's a picture of what I am calling the obverse side. It may be upside down and it may even the reverse side. http://www.geocities.com/christian_...tand-o90.jpg I would assume that these two characters denote the currency amount and unit but I could not decipher them. Now here's a picture of what I am calling the reverse. http://www.geocities.com/christian_...tand-r90.jpg I'm pretty sure I got it right side up. There's a picture of a beautiful flower and the date seems to be written right-to-left under that. I do not understand the first four characters from the right. If that is suppose to be the era then I am at a loss in matching them up to either the Meji, Taisho, Showa, or Heisei eras. The next four characters seem to say either 62 or 26. Can anyone here help me understand this coin? Thanks! :-) -- Boris Edited by christian_cyclist 01/10/2009 01:57 am Report this Post to the Staff

gxseries Pillar of the Community Australia 3831 Posts	Posted 01/10/2009 01:39 am It's Taiwanese 5 jiao, year 62 therefore 1973. 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
wd1040 Pillar of the Community United States 3098 Posts	Posted 01/10/2009 01:41 am Yes, I can! First of all, it's not Japanese, but Taiwanese (or Republic of Chinese) On the side with the chain border and the two characters, it reads (R to L) Wu Jiao, or 5 ten-cents, so 50c. On the "reverse" it says Republic of China (the first 4 reading R to L) and then 62 year, so the 62nd year of the Republic of China, which converts to 1973 (add 11 to it) ... and so that's it.... *gah! you beat me gx by 2 min!! Edited by wd1040 01/10/2009 01:42 am Report this Post to the Staff
christian_cyclist Valued Member United States 284 Posts	Posted 01/10/2009 01:55 am Taiwanese! I never would have guessed. If I would have scrolled down far enough on gxseries' website then I probably would have seen it but the thought that it was Taiwanese never occurred to me. The Republic of China was established in 1911 then? Did I get my obverse/reverse sides right? -- Boris Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16830 Posts	Posted 01/10/2009 02:08 am Quote: The Republic of China was established in 1911 then? No, 1912, because there was no Year Zero. 1912 was Year 1 of the Republic. 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
christian_cyclist Valued Member United States 284 Posts	Posted 01/10/2009 02:13 am Gotcha. They don't wait for the first year to be complete (like waiting to celebrate a birthday). -- Boris Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16830 Posts	Posted 01/10/2009 06:19 am Actually, in East Asia, they count birthdays in the same manner, too. The day they are born is considered their "first" birthday. So if you asked a Chinese, Japanese or Korean person their age and they told you they're 20, they really mean they're 19 years old, by Western reckoning. 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
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