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<p>[QUOTE="ewomack, post: 3526444, member: 15588"]Yes, I can see it now, 昭和六年 or Showa 6, as already stated.</p><p><br /></p><p>One more thing, dates (and all text) on Japanese coins appeared from right to left before the 1950s, so the date actually looks like this on the coin: 年六和昭</p><p><br /></p><p>So "Great Japan" reads like this: 本日大</p><p><br /></p><p>Modern Japanese coins read left to right, so on more recent coins "Japan" now appears like this: 日本国</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, around the Chrysanthemum on reverse top of the 2 Sen, the characters read "50 to one yen," similar to the "1/100" and "1/200" on the reverse of Early American copper cents and half cents.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ewomack, post: 3526444, member: 15588"]Yes, I can see it now, 昭和六年 or Showa 6, as already stated. One more thing, dates (and all text) on Japanese coins appeared from right to left before the 1950s, so the date actually looks like this on the coin: 年六和昭 So "Great Japan" reads like this: 本日大 Modern Japanese coins read left to right, so on more recent coins "Japan" now appears like this: 日本国 Also, around the Chrysanthemum on reverse top of the 2 Sen, the characters read "50 to one yen," similar to the "1/100" and "1/200" on the reverse of Early American copper cents and half cents.[/QUOTE]
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