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Message:: [QUOTE="gxseries, post: 2029225, member: 4373"]It's pretty interesting to see where some of the scarcer UNC 1950s Japanese coins come from. A fair number that I have seen online actually were offered by Americans, most likely from army personals that were based in Japan. The same also is applied to some of the scarcer to rarer Korean and Chinese coinage or any other world coins - some of the best were taken overseas. I guess their survival rate would be higher as they would not be subjected to meltdown, daily abuse, withdrawn from circulation etc. The key of 10 yen coin is surprisingly not any of the nice UNC reeded edge 10 yen coin but a 1986 10 yen. Yes you would have thought I have gone mad. In this particular year, Japan mint has decided to change the design of the temple. There are some minor differences however is obvious. Take a coin that is dated before 1986 and after and you should be able to see that there are some minor changes. There are some coins struck in 1986 with the old temple design and this is classified as a transitional error. Quite rare and if you have one in UNC condition, this is worth a fair amount, easily more than a few hundred.[/QUOTE]