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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 1458282, member: 4703&quot;]It really depends on what country you are talking about.</p><p><br /></p><p>For instance, in Japan there is a clear cut line of demarcation between cast coinage and milled coinage - 1867, the third year of the Meji Restoration, when by Imperial edict stamped coins, produced by machinery imported from England, replaced cast ones, and the denomination &quot;yen&quot; was created.</p><p><br /></p><p>Across the Sea of Japan it&#039;s not that clear.&nbsp; In China milled coinage started appearing in the final days of the Empire, and pretty much became the standard in 1912, the same year the Republic was declared.</p><p><br /></p><p>Other countries?&nbsp; Other dates.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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