ID some world coins for me?

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Sorry for the bad scans.

 

First two are Japan, 10 and 5 yen coins, I think the date is ca. 1956-1957 ie year 30 of the Showa era.

The third coin is from Ethiopia, a cent, dated 1936, but struck with a frozen date until the 1970's.

 

Thank you!

 

#1 Japanese 10 yen, Showa 39 - 1964
#2 Japanese 5 yen, Showa 37 - 1962
Not too sure what the third is.

 

For the Japanese coins, here is a website to help you convert western years to Japanese.

http://www.allcalendars.net/JapaneseYearConverter.php

Also to identify the caricatures:

http://www.lioncoins.com/nippon.htm

 

The date 1936 is from the Ethiopic calendar, it is about 1944 AD.

 

Thanks for the info guys. I wonder, why is the Ethiopian date 6 years different.

 

saw this post late but scotty is right. what wonderful jap coins lucklily i have a few as well

 

Ethiopia uses the Coptic calendar, which uses a older calculation of when exactly the Annunciation of Jesus occurred. The date is either 7 or 8 years behind the Gregorian calendar, depending on the time of year.

 

Very interesting. I think I'll make a note of that and keep it with the coin.