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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ewomack, post: 3621202, member: 15588&quot;]I have heard that 令和元年, or &quot;First year of Reiwa&quot; coins will come out later this year. Similarly dated coins were issued when Hirohito died (as you probably already know, but others may not). In 1989, Japan issued coins for both 昭和六十四年 and 平成元年 that same year. But, even though Akihito is still alive, it looks like Japan considers the Heisei era finished and the Reiwa era already begun. When I was in Japantown in San Fransisco a month ago, shops were already displaying calendars with Reiwa dates. The era began when Akihito abdicated and Naruhito ascended to the throne, which happened on May 1st of this year.</p><p><br /></p><p>This <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiwa" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiwa" rel="nofollow">wiki page</a> says that the Reiwa 100 and 500 Yen coins should be circulating by the end of July.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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