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<p>[QUOTE="The Eidolon, post: 7565070, member: 102103"]With the wartime inflation, I think pretty much all the sen denominations would have been too small to circulate much after the war anyway. The 10 sen ended in 1946 (Showa 21) and the 50 sen in 1948 (Showa 23). I think the postwar yen was pegged at 360 to the dollar initially. Even in impoverished postwar Japan most coins less than a yen would have been too small to circulate.</p><p><br /></p><p>As the ceramic coins weren't really officially released during the war (though a few leaked out into use), my guess is that they were never really legal tender. And their collector's value would have exceeded their face value quickly enough that there wouldn't have been much incentive to try to pass ceramic coins into circulation even if one could find someone willing to accept them in payment.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="The Eidolon, post: 7565070, member: 102103"]With the wartime inflation, I think pretty much all the sen denominations would have been too small to circulate much after the war anyway. The 10 sen ended in 1946 (Showa 21) and the 50 sen in 1948 (Showa 23). I think the postwar yen was pegged at 360 to the dollar initially. Even in impoverished postwar Japan most coins less than a yen would have been too small to circulate. As the ceramic coins weren't really officially released during the war (though a few leaked out into use), my guess is that they were never really legal tender. And their collector's value would have exceeded their face value quickly enough that there wouldn't have been much incentive to try to pass ceramic coins into circulation even if one could find someone willing to accept them in payment.[/QUOTE]
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