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Can you help me identify this Japanese 5 Sen coin. It is a small coin - 15mm in diameter (about the size of our old 3-Cent Silver). Searching on ebay I think it may be -- "Year 6 (1873) Japan 5 Sen - .800 Silver, Type I, ..... Emperor Mutsuhito, Meiji era". I don't read Japanese. So, can anyone confirm this is or let me know the correct attribution.  |
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Yep. Sounds good to me.  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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Which part shows the Date, which part shows the "Emperor Mutsuhito, Meiji era"?
Edited by Danester
04/08/2011 11:24 pm
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本- 大 - The Great Japan
年.治明 - Meiji Year 6
"e - 5 Sen
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Very good - Thanks for the links and information. One last question. Any idea on value. I will most likely put this coin up for auction on ebay next week. |
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i wish I could help you but... though I've spent a considerable amount of years studying japanese, as yet am still far from consummation)
I'm not a native japanese speaker but even for a native one - if they are not trained in calligraphy - reading and comprehending the meaning of such a writing would not be an easy business... there is a joke (kind of) in japanese saying that something is written so skilfully that it cannot be read at all)...
it may be some haiku (providing if it is in japanese in the first place, though it looks like it is)
one thing I can say is - as the inscription contains the symbol "." - that the tree is what is called "ume" or a "japanese apricot / plum", thus the bird is probably "uguisu" - "bush warbler" because "ume" and "uguisu" is considered an auspicious combination
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Goodwin, thank you again. Yass... You da Man ! Let me try one of those.  |
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This calligraphy is still easy to read - Yass might not be too off that it might be Chinese instead of Japanese although his joke isn't too funny.
My Japanese and Chinese is getting rusty so I might be a bit off. It's somewhere along the lines of a branch of ume facing the light, painted in 1924 or 1984 (dated in sexagenary cycle) - prosperity to come for a long time.
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This must be a Chinese water-color painting. That's a Plum Tree not Cherry Tree.
The Chinese along the right edge that says "One Plum
to make the spring more beautiful" and another Sentence tell us the date and the author of thepainting. The year is the "jiazi"(chinese year) 、 the Season is Spring,and the name of Painter is Ye Yongjia.
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Tirtonzzb, Thank you for the information.
The Danester
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Doing a search on the Internet, the Chinese calendar was based on a cycle combination of 10 heavenly stems and 12 earthly branches. 60 combinations formed a cycle of 60 years. Jiazi "子 is formed by the Jia " (1st of the 10 heavenly stems) and Zi 子 (1st of 12 earthly branches).
According to chinese history, the 1st year reign of Huangdi is supposedly the starting point for Chinese calendar (i.e. Jiazi "子 year)
What year in the current 60-year cycle does this Jaizi represent?
"One should seek serenity to cultivate the body, thriftiness to cultivate the morals. If you are not simple and frugal, your ambition will not sparkle. If you are not calm and cool, you will not reach far". - Zhugeliang
Good advice to coin collectors and die variety seekers.
The Danester
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