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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 211935, member: 669&quot;]Japan, 1 sen, Y#62, dated Showa 20 (1945), 1.3g tin-zinc (probably the worst choice of metals ever used for coinage <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />).</p><p><br /></p><p>The combined 1944-45 mintage of this 15mm piece was 1,629,580,000.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the Standard Catalog of World Coins the lowest grade priced is VF at 25¢, but in that corroded condition it really has no numismatic value.&nbsp; A sen is 1/100 of a yen, so it&#039;s face value when minted was negligible at the fixed post-war exchange rate of ¥360=$1.</p><p><br /></p><p>The vertical legend translates as &quot;Great Japan&quot;, with the date &quot;Showa niju nen&quot; at the bottom, reading right to left.&nbsp; On the other side the horizontal line is &quot;ichi&#039; (one) and the character below the chrysanthemum blossom is &quot;sen&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>This was the last metal sen coin ever minted.&nbsp; In late 1945 there was a baked clay sen, in both red and brown coloration, and beginning in 1946 the denomination was not minted.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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