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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Eidolon, post: 7774669, member: 102103&quot;]Picked up this <a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces14251.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces14251.html" rel="nofollow">Taisho 3 (1914) 50 sen</a> recently.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1333496[/ATTACH]</p><p>These are the same size as the late Meiji 50 sen coins, and were minted from 1912-17.&nbsp; I have a handful of the later, smaller Taisho 50 sen (1922-26), but this is my first of the earlier type.&nbsp; Her it is with it&#039;s type set brethren:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1333499[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1333500[/ATTACH]</p><p>You can see that by late Taisho, nationalist sentiment had reached a point where there was no Western text on the coins, only Japanese characters.&nbsp; After the War, Arabic numerals would reappear alongside denominations in kanji.</p><p><br /></p><p>If I wanted to complete a type set (excluding patterns) of 50 sen, I still need the three earlier, larger silver Meiji types:&nbsp; <a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces130757.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces130757.html" rel="nofollow">Meiji 3-4</a>, <a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces15205.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces15205.html" rel="nofollow">Meiji 4</a> (smaller diameter), and <a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces14249.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces14249.html" rel="nofollow">Meiji 6-38</a>.</p><p>The only Meiji Era 50 sen I have is year 40 (1907).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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