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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 59421, member: 669&quot;]Welcome meijiyen.&nbsp; It&#039;s nice to have another forum member interested in my favorite currency/coinage.&nbsp; Please tell us a little about yourself in the Introduction Forum.That&#039;s one I don&#039;t have to see to assure you that it is probably Chinese, possibly Bulgarian, and as genuine as a U.S. $3 bill <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> !</p><p><br /></p><p>The reason you don&#039;t find anything cataloged with a date earlier than Meiji 3 (1870), is that the very denomination &quot;yen&quot; was formally created by the Shinka Jorel (&quot;New Coinage Act&quot;) of Meiji 4, although some patterns were produced the previous year, and the first official coins were given the earlier date.</p><p><br /></p><p>As quoted in <i>Modern Japanese Coinage</i> by Cummings, the act provided, in part:&nbsp; &quot;The standard unit of the new coinage shall be called yen.&quot;&nbsp; The basic unit had been the mon, which was made equal to the new minor denomination &quot;rin&quot;.&nbsp; In turn 10 rin made one &quot;sen&quot;, and 1,000 rin, or 100 sen, made one &quot;yen&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some of the Chinese EBayers not only sell fake Meiji 2 coins, but also fakes dated Meiji 1, which is even more absurd since the first year of a Japanese Emperor&#039;s reign is dated &quot;gan&quot;, meaning first, not &quot;1&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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