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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Eidolon, post: 4229371, member: 102103&quot;]To be fair, those are all Chinese-style characters on the coins, with no hiragana or katakana.&nbsp; Most Japanese coins are entirely in kanji.</p><p>Modern Chinese coins look somewhat different because the character simplifications are much more drastic, but traditional Japanese and Chinese characters look very similar.</p><p><br /></p><p>Examples:</p><p>&quot;Country&quot; in traditional Japanese and Chinese:</p><p>國</p><p>In modern Japanese and Chinese:</p><p>国</p><p><br /></p><p>A few characters have different simplifications in modern Japanese and Chinese.</p><p>Sen/Qián (1/100th of a yen in Japanese, or money in general in Chinese):</p><p>Traditional Japanese and Chinese:&nbsp; 錢</p><p>Modern (simplified) Japanese:&nbsp; 銭</p><p>Modern (simplified) Chinese: 钱</p><p><br /></p><p>The easiest way to identify coins if you can&#039;t read characters is to learn to recognize the country names and look for those.</p><p>大日本 = Imperial Japan</p><p>日本 = Modern Japan</p><p>中華民國 = Republic of China/Taiwan</p><p>中华人民共和国 = People&#039;s Republic of China[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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