Foreign Coin

[KILLER Tn]

I found this a few years ago, I think at an old park , just wondering how old , face value, and where it is from. Any Ideas ??

 

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[sasnz]

well donr montana, I think we can tick this one solved.

 

[Montana Jim]

I didn't get it... Cybercop did!

 

[cybercop106]

It looks like a 5 yen Japanese coin. They are made of brass and have a hole in the middle to make them harder to counterfeit.
It's a little hard to tell about the obverse because of the blurring.........

 

[SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS]

It looks like a 5 yen Japanese coin. They are made of brass and have a hole in the middle to make them harder to counterfeit.
It's a little hard to tell about the obverse because of the blurring.........

 

[hikeinmts]

It is a 5 yen coin, dated year 62 Sho-wa, which translates to.......let me get my Japanese coin book.......1987. Several 10s of millions
made, so not rare. But a nice find in the States.
(BTW, for any of you reading this, I do find many, many oriental coins, and would be glad to look in my reference books to help date them,
and also grade them, and let you know if you have something ok or REALLY OK. Let me know, please. hikeinmts@hotmail.com

 

[cybercop106]

I was told 5 yen coins are considered good luck because the 5 is pronounced 'go' and yen added makes it sound like 'good luck' in Japanese (go-en).
Hope it has worked for you over the last ten years Killer. If not, carry it in your pocket and maybe it will!

 

[KILLER Tn]

Thanks for all the help , to everyone.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Thanks for all the help , to everyone.

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[Jadish]

Actually this coin in Showa 24, which is 1949. There were actually two types made, and the one you have is the older one. Still, the price is not a lot, perhaps 50 cents?

 

[hikeinmts]

OK, one more time. I made a mistake.....I was dating the new coin, found lower in your line of messages. It is 62, and the correct date for that is what I told you.
Jadesh is reading the date backwards. Your coin, that you showed in your hand, is year 42.....read the numbers right to left, the same way that the Chinese read their newspapers, and the Koreans and the Japanese read their writing 100 years ago. Perhaps the Japanese still read it that way, but the Koreans have adapted their writing to read left to right, even though it is still in HanGul.

So, year 42, Sho wa is 1967. I am glad that Jadesh challenged me, because you have found one of the key coins in the newer coin series. There were 26,000,000 denomination 5 coins made in that year, but that is the third lowest of all the years since WW II. It is still not very valuable, but it is worth far more than the others.....and holding on to it, each year it will gain in value more than most of the other dates.....and just the idea of finding that particular coin in the States is noteworthy.

For sure, a very, very good coin.