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<p>[QUOTE="hontonai, post: 303729, member: 4703"]Where are you getting your dates? The ¥5 on page 2 is dated Showa 55 (1980), not Showa 44 (1969).</p><p><br /></p><p>Try photographing your ¥50 against a white background. That might help the white balance of the picture.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Edited:</b>I just realized that your dating errors both involve misreading "go" (5) as "yon" (4). Yon is a rectangle with arcs at each of the upper corners. Go is more difficult to describe, but just look at the characters on each side of the "ju" (10 - the one that looks like a "+") on the ¥5.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="hontonai, post: 303729, member: 4703"]Where are you getting your dates? The ¥5 on page 2 is dated Showa 55 (1980), not Showa 44 (1969). Try photographing your ¥50 against a white background. That might help the white balance of the picture. [b]Edited:[/b]I just realized that your dating errors both involve misreading "go" (5) as "yon" (4). Yon is a rectangle with arcs at each of the upper corners. Go is more difficult to describe, but just look at the characters on each side of the "ju" (10 - the one that looks like a "+") on the ¥5.[/QUOTE]
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