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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ewomack, post: 6041958, member: 15588&quot;]The Meiji dragon series are some of my favorite coins ever minted. Be careful that you don&#039;t become obsessed. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The closest coin to the 1 Sen that I have a photo available of is a 1/2 Sen (&quot;半銭&quot;) from 1885 or &quot;明治十八年.&quot; Pictured below. Japanese read from right to left until the mid-1950s, so you need to read the date, and everything, &quot;backwards&quot; on coins prior to that date.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse isn&#039;t shown, but it likely has the characters &quot;一銭&quot; or &quot;1 Sen&quot; in the middle and the characters across the top, &quot;以百枚換一圓,&quot; mean &quot;100 to a Yen,&quot; whereas the 1/2 Sen reads &quot;二百枚換一圓&quot; or &quot;200 to a Yen.&quot; This always reminds me of the &quot;1/100&quot; or &quot;1/200&quot; on the reverse of early American cents and half cents.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;大日本&quot; or &quot;dai nihon&quot; translates roughly to &quot;Great Japan&quot; or &quot;Empire of Japan&quot; and is how imperial Japan (i.e, prior to WWII) usually referred to itself. Today&#039;s Japanese coins use &quot;日本国&quot; or &quot;nihon (or nippon) koku.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not sure where you found the 1 Sen, but it was a good find that also provides an introduction to a very fascinating series. For 1884, the 1 Sen had a mintage of 53,702,768 and in the condition pictured is probably worth only a few dollars, but it&#039;s still a fascinating thing to come across.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1244480[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1244481[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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