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Japanese coinage was reformed in 1948 with the issue of a brass one-yen coin. 451,170,000 coins were minted until production stopped in 1950. [18] The obverse of these brass coins features a numeral "1" with "State of Japan" above, and the date below, while the reverse reads "One Yen" with a floral pattern below it. [ 18 ]
The 5-yen coin (五円硬貨, Go-en kōka) is a denomination of the Japanese yen. The current design was first minted in 1959, using Japanese characters known as the " new script " and kanji in the kaisho style, and were also minted from 1948 to 1958 using "old-script" Japanese characters in the gothic style. [ 1 ]
From the 12th century onwards the Japanese started importing Chinese currency again even while the Southern Song dynasty banned the export of its coinage, while the import of Chinese cash coins surged again during the Ming dynasty era when large amounts of Ming Chinese cash coins were imported. The Japanese started locally imitating Chinese ...
They are examples of early Japanese minting and they are currently housed in the Japan Currency Museum. The earliest coins to reach Japan were Chinese Ban Liang and Wu Zhu coins, as well as the coins produced by Wang Mang during the first centuries of the first millennium CE; these coins have been excavated all over Japan, but as Japan's ...
This coin is described as "very rare" by Heritage Auctions. [135] [136] 5 yen 33rd 三十三 1958 KM-Pn86 Virtually identical to the adopted 2nd design which uses an "old script" for the value. There are added Japanese characters on the reverse side (gear design around hole). [137] 10 yen: 25th 二十五 1950 KM-Pn82 Unknown design struck in ...
The following is a list of Japanese actresses in surname alphabetical order. Names are displayed given name first, per Wikipedia manual of style.. To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing that they are Japanese actresses or must have references showing that they are Japanese actresses and are notable.
The following are lists of films produced in Japan in the 1950s: List of Japanese films of 1950; List of Japanese films of 1951; List of Japanese films of 1952; List of Japanese films of 1953; List of Japanese films of 1954; List of Japanese films of 1955; List of Japanese films of 1956; List of Japanese films of 1957; List of Japanese films of ...
The 50 sen coin (五十銭硬貨) was a Japanese coin worth half of a Japanese yen, as 100 sen equalled 1 yen. [1] These coins circulated from the late 19th century to the early 1950s, when Japan adopted a single currency unit and this coin was demonetized.