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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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"The Japanese year is written with the name of the reigning Emperor followed by the year of his reign and the kanji character for "year"". So you need to know the year the Emperor started and that is Year ONE (not zero). The start of His second year is year two, etc. The latest Emperor started in 1989, Year one. His name is one character followed by the japanese number. But there are many of the older coins from the Previous Emperor still in circulation. His are easy to tell the difference as His name is two characters followed by the japanese number. His Reign was 1926 (year one) to 1989 (year 64). This is the best site that I have found for converting Western years to Japanese years. You pick a date and can scroll thru to find your characters and you'll know the year of all your Japanese coins. http://www.allcalendars.net/Japanes...onverter.php |
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Forum Mom
 United States
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Toast, that's a great site! It's going to be very helpful. Thanks a bunch!  |
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Rest in Peace
United States
2884 Posts |
Great site! Thanks for posting it. The question of dates on Japanese coins has come up several times. I have added to my favorites! Mike  |
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New Member
Japan
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The latest Emperor started in 1989, Year one. His name is one character followed by the japanese number.
That's not correct, as explained in detail at my post in the thread https://goccf.com/t/4266 |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1454 Posts |
Here is another great site for Japanese coins I found today while identifying more of my wife's world coin collection for her. It's more like my world coin collection but hey, it gives me a reason to buy even more coins.  http://www.lioncoins.com/nippon.htm |
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Pillar of the Community
 Australia
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Good interesting site. In the last week, I dated a bunch of Japanese coins. One is a 1976 (Showa 51) 100 Yen, larger than the normal and not found in Krause. I suspect it to be a commemerative coin.
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09/30/2006 04:03 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I just used it to date the two dozen coins I have. Thanks
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Valued Member
United States
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The Lionscoins coin link posted by Irishraider was very useful to me last week. Thanks. I've booked marked it.
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