Friday, August 05, 2011

1998 Japan 1 Yen

Do you have a Japanese coin and want to know its value? Leave a comment

It is an honor to bring you my first Japanese coin find since starting this blog. Found at Starbucks, apparently someone had a yen for coffee. Now let me stop before I offend with bad puns.

Again another non-change find but floor finds do count. Japan coins are also pretty rare to see in circulation. I suspect the recent devastation in Japan has brought more travel between our two nations.

Since I hardly see Japanese coins and the language is quite difficult, even in the age of online translations, it always takes me some time to figure out the year and most of the characters on the coins.

I think the top three characters mean Japan, not sure about the bottom two.


平成mean Heisei year 10 or year 1998 yen
From what I gather about Japanese dates they are based on the ruler. For this coin the ruler is Akihito (Heisei) and it was his tenth year as ruler.

Here are the stats...
Type/Country: 1 Yen / Japan
Year: 1998 (Year 10)
Mintage: 452,412,000
Metal: Aluminum
Value: $0.01 in Fine

Exchange rate is also about $0.01.

Update: Thanks to Anonymous who said; "The bottom two symbols say "one yen"" which I verified with Google Translate = One Yen

Do you have a coin from Japan and want to know its value? Leave a comment/question and I will do my best to find out the price and history for you.

6 dollars worth, for Comments/Questions click here.:

Anonymous said...

The bottom two symbols say "one yen"

Man said...

The bottom two symbols say "one yen"

Thanks, I will update.

Bryan said...

Hello,

Do you have any idea what this coin is and what it is worth? Thank you!

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Man said...

Do you have any idea what this coin is and what it is worth? ...

10 Yen 1952 from Japan about $0.20.

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