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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 171215, member: 669&quot;]Wrong on two counts:</p><p><br /></p><p>First of all, modern Japanese coins are never dated &quot;ichi&quot; (the cardinal number &quot;one&quot;).&nbsp; Instead they are dated &quot;gan&quot; (the ordinal number &quot;first&quot;).&nbsp; The <u>total</u> mintage of &quot;Heisei 1&quot; coins of all denominations was zero.</p><p><br /></p><p>(The&nbsp; Kanji character &quot;ichi&quot; is a single horizontal line.&nbsp; The Kanji character &quot;gan&quot; roughly resembles a fancy Greek letter &quot;pi&quot;, with a line above it.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Secondly, although&nbsp; there were no ¥50 or higher valued coins minted with a Showa 64 date, the Japan Mint Bureau did split their production of lower value coins, minting</p><ul> <li>116.1-million Showa 64, and 2.37-billion Heisei Gan ¥1 coins</li> <li>67.3-million&nbsp; Showa 64 and 960-million Heisei Gan ¥5 coins, and</li> <li>74.7-million Showa 64 and 666-million Heisei Gan ¥10 coins.</li> </ul><p>I believe all three Showa 64 coins exist because the Japan Mint Bureau,&nbsp; the Japanese Numismatic Dealers Association catalog. Krause, and the examples of each one in my own collection, all&nbsp; tell me to.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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