Anyone know Japanese? Silver 50 sen coin! Whats the date?

[oddcoins]

Anyone know Japanese? Silver 50 sen coin! What's the date?

How can you tell what year this thing is?!

This was found today by my good friend Ron! NICE FIND RON!!!!

 

[Montana Jim]

Re: Anyone know Japanese? Silver 50 sen coin! What's the date?

Mid 1920s... still trying to narrow it down.

 

[ivan salis]

Re: Anyone know Japanese? Silver 50 sen coin! What's the date?

1922 to 1926 * era --.720 silver content -- photo in my world coin book 2000 edition looks just like it .

 

[Montana Jim]

Re: Anyone know Japanese? Silver 50 sen coin! What's the date?

1922 to 1926 * era --.720 silver content -- photo in my world coin book 2000 edition looks just like it .

Ha! I knew I was reading that close...

 

[oddcoins]

Re: Anyone know Japanese? Silver 50 sen coin! What's the date?

1922 to 1926 * era --.720 silver content -- photo in my world coin book 2000 edition looks just like it .

Yeah, I found it in my book too ~ but how do I tell the year?!

 

[ivan salis]

Re: Anyone know Japanese? Silver 50 sen coin! What's the date?

easy type in "japanese numbers" into your search spot enter to go to numbers translation chart on line -- use it to translate the date "numbers" on the coin
I think the last symbol is a "six" a sort of stick man looking mark --thus 1926*?

see below ---I stand corrected 1923 * --

 

[Jadish]

Re: Anyone know Japanese? Silver 50 sen coin! What's the date?

Yeah, it's Taisho year 12, means 1923. Unfortunately it is the most common one they made, worth about $4.

 

[Montana Jim]

Re: Anyone know Japanese? Silver 50 sen coin! What's the date?

Ah! Jadish beat me to it! LOL

Or... use this... I just found this site and it's awesome!

http://www.allcalendars.net/JapaneseYearConverter.php

I converted the years to find "1923" and made this example picture.

 

[El_Bandido]

Re: Anyone know Japanese? Silver 50 sen coin! What's the date?

私は知りません..
私 AINT JAPANESE!!