I have a couple foreign coins and was wondering what they are:
Thanks for the assistance.
The script is Korean.
Yours seem to be included.
The second one is the 100 Won coin of South Korea. Roughly equivalent to a dime or so in USD. The first one looks more like a one yen coin, so Japanese. I don’t know how much that is worth.
First one is Japanese.
Second is Korean.
The first coin is not Korean. The front side top says 日本国, “Nation of Japan”, and at the bottom it says 一円 which is “1 yen”. Don’t know enough characters to read the back.
Bwuh? Is that first one not a Japanese one-yen coin? Or am I imagining being able to read it?
(To my eyes, those are Chinese characters, not Korean script… What I don’t know is, how old us the coin and how recently did Korea use Chinese characters on coins?)
:smack:Yes that is what I get for only looking at the second link.
Japan adopted Chinese characters for more formal writing.
Actually, the back of the first coin says something about the date, but maybe it’s dynastic date or something. X X 二 年 - something something two year.
Sorry, thought I had spotted the first one in the OP. I was actually looking atthis.
Yes. If I’m reading it right it says Heisei 2, meaning it was issued in 1990. (… Actually, given that this design didn’t come out until 1955, which was year 29 of the previous era (Showa), it’d have to be Heisei to be a year 2 issue.)
Fun fact about the aluminum Japanese 1-yen coin in the first picture: if placed very carefully on water, it will float.