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Message:: [QUOTE="satootoko, post: 124102, member: 669"]1973 was Showa 48 on the Japanese calendar. In that year the following coins were minted: <ul> <li>¥1, aluminum, Y#73</li> <li>¥5, brass Y#71</li> <li>¥10, bronze Y#73</li> <li>¥50, cu-ni Y#81</li> <li>¥100, cu-ni Y#82</li> </ul>Except for the ¥5 coin, all of them had the same basic design as the currently minted ones.  The ¥5 was the last year of issue for it's design, which has no hole in the middle, and depicts the Diet (Parliament) Building on the reverse. The ¥10 had a milled edge, while the current design has a smooth edge. The ¥50 and ¥100 coins were the first ones issued with Arabic numbers instead of the Chinese number characters generally used in Japan. The current coins have different catalog numbers from those of 1973 because Krause assigns new catalog numbers based on the Nengo (regnal name) changes, and the distinction between the character Gan ("First") on coins of a new reign, and the characters for numbers on the others.[/QUOTE]