These 2 nice modern Japanese silver coins showed up in the mail today. Both cost me 99 cents. :smile 1963 & 65 Years 38 & 40 of the Showa.
Here is a pretty neat 1,000 Yen coin I have from the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. :smile Mt. Fuji in the background. Its around the size of a Morgan and is .90 fine. :yes:
Yippe, the 5 100 Yen silver pieces showed up from Hawaii this afternoon. Very nice quality (IMO), 3 were 99 cents and 2 were around $2. :hail: View attachment 116457 View attachment 116458 View attachment 116459 View attachment 116455 View attachment 116456
I will sometimes pick these up whenever I see them at coin shows. The olympic ones are silver. I know the one with the peacock (or phoenix? Help me out here, gxseries) is .600 silver. I also like the Japanese copper coins that you can pick up for a dollar to ten dollars, like the 1 Sen, 2 Sen coins from the 1880s. They have dragons on them, which makes them kinda cool. Check those out sometime... Nice buys!
Thanks Mlov. The 100 Yens were silver from around 1957 to 1966. The Dragon coins are the coinage of the Great meiji Emperor 1867 to 1912 and very sought after.
It's a phoenix, which was the motif of several Showa coins. The ¥100s were a two-year series - 1957/58. JNDA#02-2/Krause Y#77. Yours is dated Showa 23 (1958).
Good thing about Japanese coins are that they are still very affordable because they are struck in terms of millions. Early Meiji coins are starting to creep up in prices and key dates are always expensive as usual.
Sorry friend - The date is Showa 7 (1932), not Taisho. The first year of this particular design was Taisho 11 (1922), and it continued in use through Showa 13 (1938). 4.95g of .720 silver, JNDA #01-17/Krause #46 (Taisho) and 50 (Showa). BTW Taisho 7 was 1918 on the western calendar.
Here is the Taisho Phenoix year 13 (1924) on a 50 sen. also a Meiji Yen 1895. I guess I am a "Jack of all trades" and a master of none. I collect all countries from all times, so I get spread out pretty thin, and have too much haste at times. Sorry.
Could you explain or point me in the right direction (link) about how to tell the dates on Japanese coins? and is the melt value of the .60 silver 100 yen coins?
