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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Eidolon, post: 7645077, member: 102103&quot;]An almost complete date set of postwar base-metal 50 sen.</p><p>The <a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces14255.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces14255.html" rel="nofollow">larger type</a> (bottom L) was made in Showa 21-22 (1946-7).&nbsp; The Showa 22 were never released to circulation and are very expensive and hard to find.</p><p>The <a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces10628.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces10628.html" rel="nofollow">smaller type</a> (bottom R) were minted 2 years:&nbsp; Showa 22-23 (1947-48).&nbsp; </p><p>After that, the 50 sen denomination was discontinued entirely, the end of the last subsidiary denomination of the yen.&nbsp; The other denominations ended in:</p><p>1 rin -- 1884</p><p>5 rin -- 1919</p><p>1 sen -- 1945</p><p>2 sen -- 1884</p><p>5 sen -- 1945</p><p>10 sen -- 1946</p><p>20 sen -- 1911</p><p>The postwar 50 sen are interesting to me as transitional types.&nbsp; The characters still read right-to-left on these, and the simplified version of the character &quot;sen&quot; has not been adopted yet (銭 vs. 錢).&nbsp; Simplified Kanji were introduced around 1946.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1314514[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1314515[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Top row are silver 50 sen.&nbsp; I love this series, so I had to throw them in for comparison.&nbsp; I think there are 4 types of Meiji 50 sen and 2 different Taisho types.&nbsp; I hope I can complete a type set of silver 50 sen some day...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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