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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gxseries, post: 229983, member: 4373&quot;]hanman88, unfortunately I don&#039;t have a Showa 13 50 sen coin. That is a rather difficult coin to obtain as the mintage happened to be the lowest. Not going to complain as I got it for free with one of the purchases I made. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is a coin from Showa 12, 1937 (yes just one year off)</p><p><img src="http://www.omnicoin.com/coins/917656.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Remember that characters are to be read from right to left.&nbsp; Notice that your last two characters are different at the bottom line. </p><p><br /></p><p>The only reason why it&#039;s so expensive is simply because of the scarce mintage which is 3 million which does sound an awful lot but compared the the next lowest mintage, it&#039;s at least 10 million and the average was around 30 million.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s unknown how much of such coins were melted in WWII and hence making the Showa 13 coin much more pricey although I don&#039;t agree with the price. Remember, Japan&#039;s war didn&#039;t start in 1939 like other parts of the world but instead in 1937 due to the Sino-Japanese war. </p><p><br /></p><p>50 sen appeared back later after WWII in 1946 as an ugly brass coin although the design does look pretty nice</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.omnicoin.com/coins/917657.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>That is a 2 year type (or perhaps one), minted only in 1946,7 (1947 is VERY VERY VERY scarce) and the last ever minted 50 sen of Japan happens to be this: </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.omnicoin.com/coins/902470.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Another 2 year type minted in 1947 and 1948. It obviously became evident that sens were getting quite worthless and the 10, 5 and 1 sen were already quite dead by the end of WWII. </p><p><br /></p><p>Hope you enjoyed reading <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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