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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 12316, member: 669&quot;]I guess the idea of world trivia - at least involving Japanese coins - is a real flop - hardly anyone cares.<img src="http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/ohwell.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; The JNDA catalog describes the head on the 1990 ¥5,000 Osaka Expo commemorative as &quot;girl with wreath of flowers and leaves&quot;, sort of a Little Sister Nature.&nbsp; The Expo itself was a celebration of flowers and greenery, hence the edge inscription of &quot;Hana to Midori&quot; (&quot;Flowers &amp; Greenery&quot;).&nbsp; She was the first head ever appearing on a Japanese coin.&nbsp; All of the subsequent Olympic and Asian Games commemoratives with athletes depicted showed full body generic sportsmen, not busts and not identifiable individuals. Well, I don&#039;t know how you converted stylized birds into heads on the ¥100,000 coins (&#039;86, &#039;87 and <i><b>&#039;90</b></i>), but then I don&#039;t know what you were drinking to prevent dehydrating the brain while studying - <img src="http://forums.collectors.com/i/authorsicons/beer.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> or <img src="http://sc.communities.msn.com/themes/pby/img/emoticons/emcocktl.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for participating, and here&#039;s an ATTA for all your effort, and your partial answer.<img src="http://forums.collectors.com/i/expressions/dancing%20smiley.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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