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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rick, post: 53558, member: 1235&quot;]I just got some of my Japanese coins posted up from my collection, and something struck me that I never noticed before...&nbsp; When they changed from the Sen to Yen, did they reverse the legend?</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.rickscoinstop.com/MiscWorld_Japan.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.rickscoinstop.com/MiscWorld_Japan.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.rickscoinstop.com/MiscWorld_Japan.htm</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I have to translate the legend to chinese, which I know, so - in the Sen, reading from left to right, on the 1899 20 Sen example, it should read:&nbsp; tien er shi san (don&#039;t know the characters for the ruler, but I know from Krause it is Meiji).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>which is the 32nd year of the Meiji</p><p>Then in the Yen example, it seems to reverse.&nbsp; Should the year be read from right to left? which would make that coin the 32nd year of the Showa, or should it just be read differently from left to right, in which that piece should be the 23rd year?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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