New pickups - Japan

I'm going through a haul I picked up at my LCS a few weeks ago. Here are some nice Japanese silver coins. I often seem to find these in great condition. I don't know if that's common or if I'm just lucky.

Here we have:
1871 5 sen (this seems to be a key date)
1904 20 sen
1907 20 sen
1909 10 sen
1909 50 sen
1929 50 sen
1936 50 sen

 

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Nice haul! The silver 50 sen are often found in decent condition.
I think because of prewar inflation, they probably didn't circulate for very long.
Here's my series showing the decline in value of the 50 sen over time.

 

And then you have the 1 yen going from this to this.

 

Thank you for sharing. I am beginning to appreciate coinage from the Far East.

 

1 yen also came in gold