Taiwanese 1 yuan date help

Hi all,

I got this coin recently that is from Taiwan. I don't know how to read the symbols to come up with the date it was minted. I know it has to do with the emporer or government in power and all that I just don't know how to read it. If anybody could help me out that would be great. Thanks.

 

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Irishraider,the characters for the date of this Taiwanese $1 coin is located on the obverse,which depicts Chiang Kai Shek.If you have a copy of Krause,you can find the number chart near the front.That chart will help you.

The Taiwanese currency in Chinese is known as 'Yuan',but the Yuan itself is the Communist Chinese currency.In English,the Taiwanese currency is correctly known as the Dollar or New Taiwanese Dollar or NT$ for short.

Aidan.

 

Thanks Aidan. It would help to know which side is which wouldn't it? LOL. :goofer:

Here is the obverse then, sorry about that:




Thanks for the help.

 

I think yours is 1984.I found a picture of an NT$10 that has the same sequence of characters on the obverse.here....http://www2m.biglobe.ne.jp/%7eZenTech/money/coin/en_p05_taiwan.htm
This was the third year of issue for this particular coin but they minted 110 million of them and even in XF it's only worth 10 cents.

 

Should be 1984

 

Thanx gx...I caught that 1 min. before you did..LOL

 

The date is Republic Year 73, which is 1984 on the western calendar, as the Republic was proclaimed in 1912.

Reading counterclockwise, the last four characters are 7, 10, 3, year. Chinese/Japanese numbers don't have a zero, so it reads "seven tens plus 3" followed by the character for year. The characters for 10, 100, 1000, etc. are used the same way.

 

Thank you all very much. I now know more than I did and that is the main goal I was trying to achieve. The worth of the coin itself was not important but just learning how to identify it was.

:hatch:

 

Roy,Imperial Korean coins are also calculated the same way as well.

Aidan.

 

For clarity, they use the same numerals, not the same calendar.

 

Agree, Koreans in the past used to have their own system of numbering, which that goes together with Japan.

I.e.


Year 501, but 1892


Year 10, 1906 (Kwangmu)


Year 10, 1877 (Meiji)


Year 10, 1998 (Heisei)


Year 11, 1922 (Taisho)

See what I mean? Numbers alone are ONE aspect but they have different calenders. (I wish I had a Taisho 10 to provide a better example )