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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 657483, member: 4703&quot;]Yup.&nbsp; The character for year is in front of the portrait&#039;s nose, at the left end of the legend.That only applies to those dated Showa 24 (1949) and later, along with some of those dated Showa 23 (1948).&nbsp; Prior to that time date legends were in the traditional Chinese/Japanese script order, reading from right to left.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chinese coins have never reversed the pattern, and those dated in Chinese characters, to this day, read right to left.</p><p><br /></p><p>The quick way to verify which direction a date is written is to look for the character <b><font size="4">年</font></b> (&quot;nen&quot; in Japanese), meaning year, which is always the final character of a date written in Chinese characters.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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