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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ewomack, post: 3833753, member: 15588&quot;]The sure sign that the coins above originated from Japan is the &quot;日本&quot; on each of them. This reads &quot;Nihon&quot; and is how Japan generally refers to itself. The date of both coins means that the characters read right to left, so &quot;Nihon&quot; appears as &quot;本日&quot; on them in two variations. &quot;大日本,&quot; or &quot;本日大&quot; as they appear on the coin, refers to the empire of Japan that dissolved after WWII. &quot;日本國,&quot; or &quot;國本日&quot; as it appears on the coin, refers to the state of Japan that began under the US Occupation. The most recent Japanese coins will have the Kanji &quot;日本国&quot; on them, displayed left to right.</p><p><br /></p><p>All of these coins are fairly common, pretty easy to find and inexpensive to purchase. The two silver colored coins are made from tin because Japan was preserving metals for their war effort. They made millions of them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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