Please help with ID

I could use some help from the collective expertise of the site here.

With the help of Numista.com, I've narrowed this coin down to:

Japan - Yen (1871-date):
10 Yen - Showa (Reeded edge) - 26-33 (1951-1958)

but I don't know the date since there are no numbers on it.

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

 

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It's 1954
The date is underneath the "10"
http://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces7515.html

 

Your coin is dated Showa 29 (1954 AD). The date is on the reverse. That line of text under the large numeral 10 reads "Showa two-ten-nine year" in Japanese (using the Chinese-based script and numerals).

 

Oh, OK. Thanks for that info!

I figured that the symbols under the "10" might be numbers, but when looking at the Numista page for that coin, all I saw were squares with a letter/number in each corner (see attached), which to me means my computer doesn't have the correct font installed.

Do you guys see the symbols properly? Do I need to install a particular font?

 

Yeah I def see the characters and not boxes.

 

I'm also getting the correct characters when I go to the Numista page. Not sure what the problem is on your end, sorry. I am using an iMac running Mac OS X version 10.9.