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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;coinhead63, post: 1310594, member: 28001&quot;]The date on the coin is 1887.&nbsp; It is the 20th year of the Meiji era.&nbsp; The symbols that look like = and + are 2 and 10 respectively.&nbsp; Because the second digit of the date is 10, you multiply the first (2) and second (10) digits to get 20.&nbsp; The character before the = character is the symbol for &quot;year&quot; and the last characters after the + denotes the era.&nbsp; The Meiji era was from 1868 to 1912.&nbsp; The way to calculate dates requires knowing the era, subtracting one from the begining date and then add the number after the year character.&nbsp; In this case:&nbsp; 1868 - 1 + (2 x 10) = 1887.&nbsp; As for authenticity and value, I am not much help but there are online sites that can help you estimate a value and hopefully authenticity.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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