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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1319164, member: 68&quot;]You can look it up easily enough but as I remember 100Y was about 40c in 1979.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most things would be similarly priced to the US but as was mentioned some things were much higher and some would be a little lower.&nbsp; Electronics and many manufactured goods would have been lower.&nbsp; Rice and fish would be much cheaper.&nbsp; In 1979 one could eat in the US in less expensive regions for about $2 a day without cutting too many corners.&nbsp; A similar diet in Japan was probably about 500Y but the same foods would be 1200Y.&nbsp; A person eating a lot of fish and rice could probably get by with 450Yen.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The 100Y coin was the workhorse of the economy in those days similarly to the quarter in the US.&nbsp; Velocity of the coin was high.&nbsp; I doubt many were set aside judging by the cost of pristine examples in Japan today. It&#039;s likely that most of these are worn about the same but I have no experience to know this since there&#039;s no way to know when examples in this country left Japan.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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