Does anyone recognize this coin?

Copper colored like a penny and approximately the same size. Has either Chinese or Japanese symbols. The number 10 displayed on one side.

This is the only coin I have that I know nothing about.

Thankyou in advance! :smile

 

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Japan 10 yen,Showa Dynasty, I think 1965?

 

BTW: Welcome to CT

 

Thankyou so much

I'm a newbie to coin collecting but I can usually recognize coins or find them online. This one stumped me :/

 

No problem...

 

It's a 1973 Japan 10-yen coin. Worth about 12 cents at the current exchange rate. I use them in daily commerce

By the way, the building depicted is the Hououdou (Hoh-oh-doh) Temple in the Byoudouin (Byoh-doh-een) complex in Uji City in Kyoto Prefecture.

http://rekishi.web.infoseek.co.jp/kiko/byodoin.htm

 

I have the same coin. Ive been trying to figure out what year its from but cant for the life of me find out. I've had this coin since 7th grade and im one year out of high school now.
Ive taken the OP's picture and kinda drew the difference of the symbols on my coin onto his. there is only that one difference. If anyone could tell what year it is that would be great.

 

That little difference is the year number, +=10, your number is a 7 if im not mistaken.

You determine date by find ing that number and adding it to the year that dynasty began...
ex: say you have 56? well the showa dynasty began in 1925. 1925 + 56 = 1981.

 

Actually, I think it's a 9 (九). Showa year 49 (四十九), or 1974.

 

thats exactly what it looks like. so it would be 1974? Cool. All these years I never knew what year the coin was.

 

Are you from japan?

 

Remember when McDonald's was giving away coins back 20+ years ago in their happy meals? I'm pretty sure this was one of them lol. Kidding aside its Japanese, and with the price of copper, It's definitely a keeper.

 

I'm not FROM Japan, buy I currently reside IN Japan.

 

Ohh, gotcha. What part? I dont where "aftershock city" is...

 

"Aftershock City" is what I call just about everywhere near and along the Pacific coast from Tokyo northward, because of all the aftershocks we had been having after the March 11 megadisaster. I myself am just outside of Tokyo.

 

What brought you to Japan, if you dont mind....

 

Study is what brought me to Japan, and employment is what kept me here.

 

I hear ya, are you originally from the U.S.?

 

I'm just south of a major disaster here in Japan, and yes, I'm from the US, just south of another major disaster area!

It's so weird that within just a couple of months this year, there would be two major disasters so close to my original home and my current home!

 

South of a disaster in the U.S.?? Are you from Florida? I am...