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Message:: [QUOTE="satootoko, post: 63471, member: 669"]Hi Bob, and welcome to the forum. What you have is a very common tourist souveneir, sold in "omiyagi-ya" ("sight-seeing gift shops") all over Japan, including many tourist hotels.  The coins are genuine and accurately described (including the copper 100 mon erroneously described as a "facsimile of a gold coin from the shogunate" in another post.).  They are all common, as indicated by the generally accurate mintage numbers in the text.  (There is a discontinuity between Krause types and the types included, as the Japanese do not distinguish between designs which vary only as to the Emperor in whose reign they are issued. Your Dad probably picked it up on a visit to the hot springs at Nikko, a popular resort an hour or two from Tokyo by train.  In those days the Palace was one of the larger hotels catering to the U.S. Military from the Occupation through the Korean War years, and later.  I haven't been to Nikko in more than 50 years, so I have no idea whether the Palace is still there. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> BTW the pre-1870 coins are listed with their denomination equivalents under the system adopted in 1871 that year.  "Rin", "Sen", and "Yen" were created as part of the complete makeover of the Japanese coinage system in the early years of the Meiji era, and did not exist before that.[/QUOTE]