photodad2001 Posted February 19, 2009 Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 I came across this coin while doing some re-organizing of some closet space. I've had the coin for about 15 years personally and recieved it from a friend who had had it for some time. The origin is Chinese, but searching the intraweb I couldn't find an exact match. I searched modern and current Chinese coins and also antique/ancient (I know the coin can't be more than 50 years old) Anyway, the closest thing I could find was a "Fen", but there were no 10 Fen coins only 1, 2, and 5, and one site had a 20 fen. I know the value of the coin is more than likely going to be less than 3 American dollars, just curious because I gave it to my daughter and she wanted to know all about it. See the pictures below. Edit: I'm 99% sure the coin is copper if that helps and it's about the size of quarter only smooth around the diameter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Posted February 19, 2009 Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 Not Chinese, that's a Japanese 10-yen coin. Face value is about 11 cents, don't know if that particular one has any collector's value. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_yen_coin -------------------- Edited to add: it's a 1989 (Year 1 of the Heisei era), so probably no value as a collector's piece. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingCrimson Posted February 19, 2009 Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 Completely O/T.. Photodad- Can you shoot me an email? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photodad2001 Posted February 19, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 Completely O/T..Photodad- Can you shoot me an email? Can I or Will I? Actually, you have to make your e-mail function accessable, so I "can't", but I "will". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photodad2001 Posted February 19, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 Not Chinese, that's a Japanese 10-yen coin. Face value is about 11 cents, don't know if that particular one has any collector's value. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_yen_coin -------------------- Edited to add: it's a 1989 (Year 1 of the Heisei era), so probably no value as a collector's piece. Cool, thanks. There's no date on it or anything, but it's condition is too good for it to be old enough to be worth anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingCrimson Posted February 19, 2009 Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 Mine is, yours isn't. Otherwise I woulda emailed you in the first place. Got some Windsurfer questions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photodad2001 Posted February 19, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 Mine is, yours isn't.Otherwise I woulda emailed you in the first place. Got some Windsurfer questions. Ooops.:p Try now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Posted February 19, 2009 Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 Cool, thanks. There's no date on it LOL, you may be making some assumptions about what a date looks like. It's written in Japanese, not Arabic numerals (or Roman, for that matter). It's under the "10" on the back of the coin. <a href="http://eow.alc.co.jp/%E5%B9%B3%E6%88%90%E5%85%83%E5%B9%B4/UTF-8">dictionary lookup</a> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photodad2001 Posted February 20, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2009 LOL, you may be making some assumptions about what a date looks like. It's written in Japanese, not Arabic numerals (or Roman, for that matter). It's under the "10" on the back of the coin. <a href="http://eow.alc.co.jp/%E5%B9%B3%E6%88%90%E5%85%83%E5%B9%B4/UTF-8">dictionary lookup</a> I figured since they had a big number "10" on the coin they would have the date the same, but I guess it would make more sense for them to have it in Japanese. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin A. Posted February 21, 2009 Report Share Posted February 21, 2009 I can tell that it's pre-1990 by using my brilliant powers of deduction. Not interested enough to actually look up the japanese numerals, but you can tell that it's not 2000+ because we're in the first decade, so the second and third numerals would be the same, same goes for the 1990s. Logic also says that its also not a 19_9 coin because the second and last numerals would be the same. This is unless the japanese dating system has a strange progression that I don't understand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Posted February 21, 2009 Report Share Posted February 21, 2009 This is unless the japanese dating system has a strange progression that I don't understand. It does - coins are dated according to what year of the current emporer's reign it is. Your powers of deduction are useless against this unnecessarily convoluted scheme, bwa ha ha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin A. Posted February 21, 2009 Report Share Posted February 21, 2009 It does - coins are dated according to what year of the current emporer's reign it is. Your powers of deduction are useless against this unnecessarily convoluted scheme, bwa ha ha. deahmnit! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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