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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 12913, member: 669&quot;]Historically the most important coin in my collection is a silver Meiji 3 (1870) Japanese silver 50 sen, Y#4.&nbsp;&nbsp; It is one of the original modern coins issued by Japan, in the third year of the Meiji Emperor&#039;s reign, following his overthrow of the Tokugawa Shogunate, which resulted in restoration of the Imperial Family to its position of authority, following hundreds of years&#039; rule by warlords, who had restricted the Emperor to ceremonial and religious duties.</p><p><br /></p><p>Striking round coinage with milled edges, and creating a decimal system to replace the cast and hammered coins used for about 1,160 years, was an extremely major step in ending Japan&#039;s isolation from the modern world.&nbsp; My coin was struck at the Osaka Mint, on British machinery imported from Hong Kong, .&nbsp; Opening that mint was one of Japan&#039;s earliest steps on the road to a modern world economy, as it became operational even before the railway and postal systems.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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