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I know nothing about foreign coins, so, when this one was given to me about a year ago, I just put it away; however, I've been curious about what it is. I'm not really interested in it's value - I'm sure it's not much - after all, it was given to me, and most folks don't give valuables away. All I want to know is what it is, the denomination, date, and what country it's from just to satisfy my curiousity. Image:  don't know.jpg3.6 KB Image: don't know 2.jpg3.98 KB |
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China
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Hi Ralph, There seems to be an error with your two photo links. You may need to re-post them so that we are able to see the coin that you are referring to.  Edited by Snooba
08/25/2006 02:56 am
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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This is the 3rd time this has happened - I post photos, and they don't show up. Don't know what I'm doing wrong. I'll try again. Image: don t know.jpg3.6 KB Image: don t know - reverse.jpg3.99 KB |
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I don't think the forum is liking the apostrophes in the original filename. Anyways, we can see the coin pics now. It's a Japanese 1 yen, looks like Year 13 - that would be 2001. Slightly rarer than your typical Japanese 1 yen - CV is 50¢ in Unc. Edit: that date's not correct. See my next post, below. 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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08/25/2006 10:36 am
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Perfect, Ralph, the photo's now work like a charm!
I am just about to look up a website that may list your coin.
So, it might be a while before I get back to you.
In the mean time, I'm sure that other members (who are far more knowledgeable than I am) might be able to help as well.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Hi Ralph, Click on the following link for a picture of your coin. Then if you click on the "back to country index" you can find information about the coin's value as well. http://www.(131231) Not Allowed - Auto-Removed /countries/coin.php?image=img2/97-95_2&desc=Japan%20y95.2%201%20Yen%20(1990+) I hope this helps.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Thanks for the information. As I said, I've been curious as to what it is more than the value, and you guys supplied that. Only one more question - I've no knowledge of the Japanese language, so I can't decipher the characters on the coin, but one thing I noticed when I went to the worldcoingallery and looked at the 1 yen coins there - noticed that all coins shown have either 6 or 4 characters below the 1 - mine has 5 characters in the same area - why is that? Again - curiousity.
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It's all to do with how the Japanese write dates. They don't use "AD" dating on their coins, but date them by the years of rule of the emperor. This site, found by toast and posted on this old thread has some more info, but basically there are two characters on one end (the left side on your coin) giving the "reign-name" of the emperor, and the last character (on the right) means "year". The characters in the middle are Japanese numbers. Now, it seems I was a bit hasty with my dating of this coin. It's actually year 30 of the previous Emperor, or 1955AD - the first year of issue for these coins, and quite scarce in high grades (CV for Unc is $15). That's the trouble with Japanese dating - without zeroes, it can be hard to tell the difference between "10 plus 3" and "3 times 10". I just knew it couldn't be year 30 of the current emperor - that won't be until 2018 (if the current emperor lives that long). 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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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Okay - thanks for the info.
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United States
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Japanese began to be written and read from left to right after WWII.
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Posted 08/25/2006 02:55 am
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