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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;manymore, post: 992994, member: 17118&quot;]You identified the four characters correctly but you are reading them in the wrong direction! :smile</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin is actually written in Chinese, not Japanese, and on this particular coin the inscriptions are read from right to left.</p><p><br /></p><p>The inscription at the top reads <i>zhong hua min guo <b>si shi jiu nian</b></i> which translates as &quot;the 49th year of the Republic of China&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your reading of &quot;year 9 0 4&quot; is actually &quot;four ten nine&quot; which is 49.&nbsp; The 49th year of the Republic of China is the year 1960.</p><p><br /></p><p>The inscription at the bottom is <i>tai wan yin hang</i> which is the &quot;Bank of Taiwan&quot; so the coin is from Taiwan as opposed to mainland China (People&#039;s Republic of China).</p><p><br /></p><p>The inscription on the other side of the coin is read top to bottom as <i>yi yuan</i> which is the denomination &quot;one <i>yuan</i>&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Gary[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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