Asian coin ID help

[Z00]

My latest batch of world coins has about 20 of these. I am hoping someone can ID it quickly before I go searching thru pictures.

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[aloneibreak]

japan 10 yen

[Z00]

Many thanks.
Is there a site that will help ID coins with pics sorted by buildings, birds, animals, people, etc.?

[henrysmedford]

Many thanks.
Is there a site that will help ID coins with pics sorted by buildings, birds, animals, people, etc.?

How to identify and find the value of your foreign coins

[Z00]

I had looked at that site. I didn't see a picture that showed the temple.
Maybe I should start a collection of images of stuff the has no western writing and put it on a web page.

[Bluegill]

For coins with animals, this site can sometimes be of help.
http://www.coinzoo.net/

Other than the World Coin Gallery site, some editions of the Krause catalog of World Coins has an identifier section, But it is about as just as limited...

[wheatie_fan]

The top of your first pic has three symbols, two of which mean Nippon or Japan. There is also the symbol for 'yen' at the 5 o'clock position. Also lots of Japanese coins have a circular flower which is supposed to be a chrysanthemum. Here are lots of examples on numista. Note the flowers or the Nippon symbols.

Your 10 yen is a little older and probably has a reeded edge. They are supposed to be harder to find and maybe a little more valuable than the ones with plain edges.

No easy references but after enough time you get to see patterns and can come pretty close to the country a coin is from. I may not know at a glance if a coin is from Taiwan or China, but I can tell that it's more likely from there than Nepal or Thailand. . .

[TheJonasCollegeFund]

The top of your first pic has three symbols, two of which mean Nippon or Japan. There is also the symbol for 'yen' at the 5 o'clock position. Also lots of Japanese coins have a circular flower which is supposed to be a chrysanthemum. Here are lots of examples on numista. Note the flowers or the Nippon symbols.

Your 10 yen is a little older and probably has a reeded edge. They are supposed to be harder to find and maybe a little more valuable than the ones with plain edges.

No easy references but after enough time you get to see patterns and can come pretty close to the country a coin is from. I may not know at a glance if a coin is from Taiwan or China, but I can tell that it's more likely from there than Nepal or Thailand. . .

I have a decent pile of the 10 yen coins......like 200 or so.....and while stacking them I noticed a few with the reeded edge.....would be nice to know if they have a premium. Thanks for that info....!

[Bluegill]

As wheatie_fan had mentioned earlier, the reeded edges were earlier coins. According to Krause, the reeded edge coins were minted from 1951 thru 1958. In 1959 they became smooth edged.

As far as rarity or possible premiums, in the whole series, only 3 years were there less than 100 million produced, 1957, '58 and '59.

50 million, 25 million and 62.4 million respectively. In '73 they started minting them in the billions.

[JeremyM]

1954, Hirohito (Showa) Year 29