What's up plebs?!
Back with another silver coin, this time I figured to pick something that is not from Germany. But it's a country they were really good pals once upon a time 😊😂
Let's see a couple pics first!
So what we have here is a Japanese 100 yen piece from 1959, which falls in the Showa era:
The Shōwa era (昭和時代, Shōwa jidai, [ɕoːwadʑidai] ⓘ) was the period of Japanese history corresponding to the reign of Emperor Shōwa (commonly known in English as Emperor Hirohito) from December 25, 1926, until his death on January 7, 1989. It was preceded by the Taishō era and succeeded by the Heisei era. source
The obverse features prominently a sheaf of rice and in Japanese the text
State of Japan
100 Yen
Moving on the reverse things at simple. Just the denomination, era and year
Shōwa
Year 39
This is a really small coin so as expected there's not much to see in the edge
When it comes to composition, we have 4.8 g of 0.600 purity.
As always, here are some more quick stats from Numista
Issuer Japan
Emperor Shōwa (1926-1989)
Type Standard circulation coin
Years 34-41 (1959-1966)
Calendar Japanese - Shōwa era
Value 100 Yen
100 JPY = EUR 0.59
Currency Yen (1871-date)
Composition Silver (.600) (60% Silver, 30% Copper, 10% Zinc)
Weight 4.8 g
Diameter 22.5 mm
Thickness 1.8 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
So yeah, just a simple standard circulation coin. Nothing really special about it. But it's good to have something shiny from so afar :)
Ok, I will leave you now with some more shots I took:
See you soon with more shiny 🥳💸
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