# Foreign coin ID help.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreign-coin-id-help/121507>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 30, 2002, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreign-coin-id-help/121507 "2002-07-30T11:03:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2002, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreign-coin-id-help/121507/21 "2002-07-31T04:32:09Z")

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Thanks for the offer sam but there’s no need. I’m never going to sell these, they’re keepsakes. And I think the link I provided above got me close enough.

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**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2002, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreign-coin-id-help/121507/22 "2002-07-31T13:36:26Z")

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#8 is definitely from the Showa era. **samclem** ’s date is correct.

Also, there’s an older #2 (1 yen) coin in the upper right of photo 2. The year on that looks to be Showa 31, or 1956.

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**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2002, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreign-coin-id-help/121507/23 "2002-07-31T15:16:21Z")

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Thanks, Sublight. I forgot the Showa Era started in 1901.

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