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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 155118, member: 669&quot;]Actually 1967 to the present.&nbsp; Y#81 is dated Showa 42-64 (1967-89), Y#101.1 is dated Heisei Gan (&quot;First&quot; - 1989), and Y#101.2 is dated Heisei 2-18 (1990-2006).&nbsp; The only differences are the era name - Showa being Hirohito&#039;s reign and Heisei being the current reign of Akihito.&nbsp; Krause considers the first year of issue in an era as a separate type because the year is expressed as the word &quot;first&quot;, rather than the number &quot;one&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>The denomination is on both sides - in Japanese characters at the bottom of the obverse as shown, and in western numbers on the reverse, which also has the date with the year in western numbers between the characters for the era and the word &quot;year&quot;.&nbsp; The value is less than 50¢.&nbsp; Catalog prices start at 75¢ in XF.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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