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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 1830680, member: 4703&quot;]Nope, although the crossed flag motif does appear on some coins of the Chinese areas under Japanese occupation in the 1930-40s.</p><p><br /></p><p>One side is a close variant of the 1 yen coin circulated from 1874-1914.&nbsp; The real ones didn&#039;t have the Japanese characters for the denomination on the obverse, instead having the English inscription &quot;416 .&nbsp; ONE YEN .&nbsp; 900&quot;, to indicate grains of silver, value, and fineness.&nbsp; The Meiji 3 date equates to 1870, four years before the basic design was adopted.</p><p><br /></p><p>The outer circle surrounding the flags is a reasonably close copy of the outer perimeter of the reverse on the first silver yen ever produced, which was dated Meiji 3.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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