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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 1350105, member: 4703&quot;]It is, if you look under the correct date.</p><p>Yup.</p><p>I never say yea or nay based solely on a picture, but it looks pretty good, and the early Meiji coppers are not frequently counterfeited.</p><p><br /></p><p>Note the characters at both ends of the date - The two on the right are &quot;Meiji&quot;, and the one on the left is &quot;nen&quot;, or &quot;year&quot;.&nbsp; A Japanese date is always written with the two-character era name followed by the digits and ending with &quot;nen&quot;.&nbsp; Your 1887 coin is dated in the traditional right-to-left direction.&nbsp; In the mid-20th Century Japan changed directions and adopted the Western left-to-right, but you can always read a date by starting with the era name and ending with the year designator.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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