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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ewomack, post: 2572156, member: 15588&quot;]The links point to 5 Yen coins (五円)&nbsp; and the JNDA catalog lists Year 33 (昭和三十三年) as 1958, but the coin shown is Year 32 (昭和三十二年) or 1957. In my opinion, the pictures that remain aren&#039;t clear enough to really determine anything　(I can&#039;t seem to zoom in on them, so I may just be too late to the page). </p><p><br /></p><p>That one sold for $2.50 says a lot. I can&#039;t imagine anyone spending time counterfeiting this series, but would someone counterfeit an error? I don&#039;t know. If someone did it seems like they would have advertised it as such and gone for a price much higher than $2.50.</p><p><br /></p><p>The vast majority of Japanese coins after the 1950s are unbelievably common. This particular year probably serves as the key because there were only 10,000,000 minted as opposed to 45,000,000 and 50,000,000 in contiguous years. Regardless, the JNDA catalog prices year 27 (昭和二十七) or 1952, <i>much</i> higher than year 32 in high grades, but Year 32 prices higher in lower grades. So now I&#039;m not sure which year to consider the key. All are pretty easily obtained in any case.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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