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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dnas, post: 7397153, member: 93707&quot;]Does anybody know what east Asian coin this is?</p><p><br /></p><p>It has the dragon from the Japanese silver 1 Yen coin (1870-1914), but it&#039;s not a Japanese 1 yen. (50 sen, 20 sen &amp; 10 sen use the same dragon, but this coin is full size &quot;trade dollar&quot; sized of ~38mm diameter).</p><p>The Korean 5 Yang has a similar general design to the Japanese 1 yen, but with a different dragon and national symbol.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin seems to have a dragon that&#039;s identical to the Japanese Meiji/Taisho dragon. It&#039;s not Japanese, because it doesn&#039;t have the 3 &quot;Japan&quot; kanji, nor the rising sun. (Japan uses some kanji from China)</p><p>I can make out that it&#039;s the first year of an emperor (who?) But the rest of the Chinese I can&#039;t read. I assume that it may be a Japanese Empire coin, maybe Manchuria (Manchuko) or similar.</p><p>Here&#039;s the coin:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1286915[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1286914[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a Japanese 1 yen, year 45 (1912) showing the same dragonfor comparison:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1286916[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1286917[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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