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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 54677, member: 669&quot;]Actually my friend, Meiji Gan (&quot;First&quot;) was 186<b>8</b> on the western calendar. but during the first years of Emperor Mutsuhito&#039;s reign, until completion of Japan&#039;s first modern minting facility in Osaka, Tokugawa-type coins continued to be produced for circulation.</p><p><br /></p><p>Although the earliest modern coins of Japan are dated Meiji 3 (1870), it wasn&#039;t until issuance of the Shinka Jorel (&quot;New Coinage Act&quot;) the following year, that the Tokugawa coins, and the weight-based denominations they were expressed in, were abolished in favor of newly created denominations.&nbsp; This English translation of the first paragraph is from the <i>Report on the Adoption of the Gold Standard</i> by Masayoshi, as quoted in <i>Modern Japanese Coinage</i>, 2d Ed., by Cummings:[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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