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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 211999, member: 4626&quot;]My grandfather brought back a lot of those; when he was in the Navy he was stationed in Japan right after the war ended.&nbsp; Also have a lot of other banknotes and coins he brought back.</p><p><br /></p><p>Inflation after WWII made minting sen pointless, so they discontinued it... that coin is the last one they minted.&nbsp; After that Japan used yen only.&nbsp; You can see the value of the sen go down dramatically as you track what metal they were made of; first copper, then bronze, then aluminum, then tin-zinc (and even clay if you count those as coins lol).&nbsp; I thought I had my dates wrong when the 1945 1 sen piece I had looked older than the 1941 I had... in actuality it&#039;s just that aluminum stood up to the elements better, the tin-zinc alloy used for the last of the sen coins gets corroded very easily.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1 yen coin which was once minted in silver is nowadays minted in aluminum.&nbsp; The yen was about 250 to the dollar when I was in Okinawa around 1984.&nbsp; Nowadays it&#039;s about 100 to the dollar.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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