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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2876544, member: 10461&quot;]So, <a href="http://portlandcoins.blogspot.com/2012/11/reading-japanese-numbers-and-dates.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://portlandcoins.blogspot.com/2012/11/reading-japanese-numbers-and-dates.html" rel="nofollow">from this page</a> <font size="3">(thank you, Portland Coins):</font></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If the 年 symbol is at the end of the date, I&#039;ve got things backwards, and it&#039;s Year 31 (1898) and not Year 13 (1880), and it&#039;s an $8.00 coin in VF (more along the lines of what I expected), and not a *gasp!* <i>$3,250.00</i> coin in VF.</p><p><br /></p><p>So now I am thinking I got things backwards and just by that coincidence of numerals, momentarily gave myself heart palpitations.&nbsp; Don&#039;t laugh!</p><p><br /></p><p>OK.&nbsp; Go ahead and laugh.&nbsp; I am, at myself. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>How many of you have misidentified something and gone to look it up in Krause and had your mind blown like this?&nbsp; LOL <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie46" alt=":facepalm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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