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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kasia, post: 25956450, member: 31533&quot;]I opened mine today. So nice --- Silver!!! and world coins !!!! </p><p><br /></p><p>I think my favorites, aside from the very lovely Maria Theresia Thaler, of course, are the Japanese Yen and Sen, the Constantin I Roman Campgate (City Gate) -- my very first one, and I think both the Cuban 5 centavos from 1915 and the Haiti 5 centimes from 1904 are great also!</p><p><br /></p><p>My SS tried to fool me with a copper 1943 cent, but yeah, it&#039;s copper plated over steel. But also I never had one before, so that is also a neat newby type of coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>For those who don&#039;t know the Japanese ones, these are nice because they are from a couple of 20th century eras (by who ruled Japan), and from l to r, starting at the top in the pic is a 50 Yen coin from 1956, which was year 31 of the Showa era (Showa was ruled by Emperor Hirohito). Hirohito ruled from December 25, 1926 (Christmas Day!!!) until his death on January 7, 1989. Then I have a 10 Sen, also from Showa era, year 7 (1932), a 5 Sen from year 11 (1922) of Taisho era, which was the era preceding Hirohito&#039;s reign and which was ruled by Emperor Yoshihito, son of the Meiji Emperor. His reign was not super long, only from July 30, 1912 to December 25, 1926, but a lot did happen during that time and his son Hirohito got a lot of experience early on because Yoshihito was a sickly man and some time in 1919 actually stopped doing his duties, with most of it being entrusted either to the Japanese Diet or his son. Yoshihito was only in his 40s when he passed on. After the 5 Sen in the Taisho era, I have three 10 Sen coins from the Showa era again. The first one (top right) is from 1946 (year 21) and the bottom two are from years 15 and 16 (1940, 1941). </p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you, SS for these coins. I am enjoying them.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1651834[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1651835[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1651836[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1651837[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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