Alloy: 90% silver, 10% copper
Weight: 26.96g
1 year type
Mintage: 3,685,049
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Diameter: 38.58mm
Alloy: 90% silver, 10% copper Weight: 26.96g 1 year type Mintage: 3,685,049 |
| Normal - with ring | Normal - without ring | Yen character - left bottom stroke slightly longer | Grease filled yen |
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01-9A Old type 1 yen (silver) - Countermark 'silver"
Countermark 'silver' over 01-9. Quite scarce.
01-10 New type 1 yen (silver) Large size
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Diameter: 38.6mm
Alloy: 90% silver, 10% copper Weight: 26.96g
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| Meiji 7 (1874) - Spiral anticlockwise | Meiji 7 (1874) - Spiral clockwise, straight 7 (most valuable of all 1874 1 yen) | Meiji 7 (1874) - Shallow vein | Meiji 7 (1874) - Deep vein Total: 942,006 |
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| Meiji 8 (1875) - Shallow vein | Meiji 8 (1875) - Deep vein Total: 139,323 | Meiji 11 (1878) - Shallow vein | Meiji 11 (1878) - Deep vein Total: 856,378 |
| Meiji 12 (1879) - 1,913,318 | Meiji 13 (1880) - 5,247,432 | Meiji 14 (1881) - Normal 4 | Meiji 14 (1881) - Dropped 4 Total: 2,917,409 |
| Meiji 15 (1882) - 5,089,064 | Meiji 16 (1883) - 3,636,678 | Meiji 17 (1884) - 3,599,192 | Meiji 18 (1885) - 4,296,620 |
| Meiji 19 (1886) - 38.6mm | Meiji 19 (1886) - 38.3mm (Quite rare)Total: 9,084,262 | Meiji 20 - large type | |
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01-10A New type 1 yen (silver) Small size
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Diameter: 38.1mm
Alloy: 90% silver, 10% copper Weight: 26.96g
All coins struck after 1897 are meant for overseas export. See 01-10C |
| Meiji 20 (1887) small type Total: 8,275,787 | Meiji 21 (1888) - 9,477,414 | Meiji 22 (1889) - 9,295,348 | Meiji 23 (1890) - 7,292,877 |
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| Meiji 24 (1891) - 7,518,021 | Meiji 25 (1892) Old type Big spiral in ball | Meiji 25 (1892) New type Total: 11,187,613 | Meiji 26 (1893) - 10,403,477 |
| Meiji 27 (1894) - 22,118,416 | Meiji 28 (1895) - 21,098,754 | Meiji 29 (1896) - 11,363,949 | Meiji 30 (1897) - 2,448,694 |
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| Meiji 34 (1901) - 1,256,252 | Meiji 35 (1902) - 668,782 | Meiji 36 (1903) - 5,131,096 | Meiji 37 (1904) - 6,970,843 |
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| Meiji 38 (1905) - 5,031,503 | Meiji 39 (1906) - 3,471,297 | Meiji 41 (1908) - 334,705 | Meiji 45 (1912) - 5,000,000 |
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01-10B New type 1 yen (silver) Large size - Counterstamp "silver"
See note in 01-10C
01-10C New type 1 yen (silver) - Counterstamp "silver"
Osaka Mint: Countermark on left
Tokyo Mint: Countermark on right
Production of silver yen was stopped and demonetized in 1897. 1 yen coins were counterstamped for overseas export in particular Taiwan and China.
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Diameter: 20mm
Alloy: 60-70% copper, 40-30% zinc Weight: 3.20g 3 year type Total mintage: 451,170,000. No breakdown figure available. |
| Showa 23 (1948) | Showa 24 (1949) | Showa 25 (1950) |
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Diameter: 38.58mm Alloy: 90% silver, 10% copper Weight: 27.22g 3 year type Total mintage: 3,056,648. No breakdown figure available. Extremely unpopular when released, a lot chopmarked or melted down. |
| Meiji 8 (1875) | Meiji 9 (1876) | Meiji 10 (1877) |
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01-12A Trade dollar (silver) - Counterstamp "silver"
Gin countermark over type 01-12A. Somewhat scarcer than the original issue.
01-13 Rising Sun Dragon 50 sen (silver) Large size
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Diameter: 31.51mm Alloy: Silver 80%, Copper 20% Weight: 12.5g
Two year type.
Total mintage: 1,806,293. No breakdown available |
| Meiji 3 (1870) | Meiji 4 (1871) - Old type (character - nip'pon') | Meiji 4 (1871) - New type |
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01-13A Rising Sun Dragon 50 sen (silver) Small size
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Diameter: 31mm Alloy: Silver 80%, Copper 20% Weight: 12.5g
One year type.
Total mintage: 2,648,309 |
| Meiji 4 (1871) - Small dragon | Meiji 4 (1871) - Large dragon |
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Diameter: 30.90mm Alloy: Silver 80%, Copper 20% Weight: 13.48g |
| Meiji 6 (1873) | Meiji 6 (1873) "Long Year" Total: 3,447,733 | Meiji 7 (1874) - 95,304 | Meiji 9 (1876) Wrath down |
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| Meiji 9 (1876) - Wrath up Total: 1,251 | Meiji 10 (1877) Wrath down | Meiji 10 (1877) Wrath up Total: 184,348 | Meiji 13 (1880) - 179 (!!!) |
| Meiji 18 (1885) - 409,920 | Meiji 30 (1897) Wrath down | Meiji 30 (1897) Wrath up Total: 5,078,437 | Meiji 31 (1898) Wrath down |
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| Meiji 31 (1898) Wrath up Total: 22,797,041 | Meiji 32 (1899) - 10,254,431 | Meiji 33 (1900) - 3,280,091 | Meiji 34 (1901) - 1,790,000 |
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| Meiji 35 (1902) 1,023,280 | Meiji 36 (1903) - 1,503,068 | Meiji 37 (1904) - 5,373,652 | Meiji 38 (1905) Wrath down |
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| Meiji 38 (1905) - Wrath up Total: 9,566,100 | |||
01-15 Rising Sun 50 sen (silver)
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Diameter: 23.50mm Alloy: Silver 72%, Copper 28% Weight: 4.95g |
| Meiji 39 (1906) - 12,478,264 | Meiji 40 (1907) - 24,062,952 | Meiji 41 (1908) - 25,470,371 | Meiji 42 (1909) - 21,998,600 |
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| Meiji 43 (1910) - 15,323,276 | Meiji 44 (1911) - 9,900,437 | Meiji 45 (1912) - 3,677,704 | Taisho 1 (1912) - 1,928,649 |
| Taisho 2 (1913) - 5,910,063 | Taisho 3 (1914) - 1,812,331 | Taisho 4 (1915) - 2,011,253 | Taisho 5 (1916) - 8,736,768 |
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| Taisho 6 (1917) - 9,963,232 | |||
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Majority melted down due to the rising silver prices. Was not released in circulation
01-17 50 sen (silver) Phoenix small size
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Diameter: 23.50mm Alloy: Silver 72%, Copper 28% Weight: 4.95g |
| Taisho 11 (1922) - 76,320,000 | Taisho 12 (1923) - 185,180,000 | Taisho 13 (1924) - 78,520,000 | Taisho 14 (1925) - 47,808,000 |
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| Taisho 15 (1926) - 32,572,000 | Showa 3 (1928) - 38,592,000 | Showa 4 (1929) - 12,568,000 | Showa 5 (1930) - 10,200,000 |
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| Showa 6 (1931) - 27,677,501 | Showa 7 (1932) - 24,132,795 | Showa 8 (1933) - 10,001,973 | Showa 9 (1934) - 20,003,995 |
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| Showa 10 (1935) - 11,738,334 | Showa 11 (1936) - 44,272,796 | Showa 12 (1937) - 48,000,533 | Showa 13 (1938) - 3,600,717 |
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01-18 50 sen (brass) Large size
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Diameter: 23.50mm Alloy: 60-70% copper, 40-30% zinc Weight: 4.50g Apparently there is a scarce variety of Showa 21 50 sen which rays appear under the phoenix. This is very likely caused by die clash from the bottom of the wheat at the obverse under the text 50 sen. Nevertheless, such die clash are rather scarce. Also much rarer is the 50 sen minted in Showa 22. Considered as rare. Total mintage: 268.16m |
| Showa 21 (1946) | Showa 21 (1946) with die clash | Showa 22 (1947) |
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01-19 50 sen (brass) Small size
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Diameter: 19.0mm Alloy: 60-70% copper, 40-30% zinc Weight: 2.80g Total mintage: 849.23m. No breakdown figure available. Two year type |
| Showa 22 (1947) | Showa 23 (1948) |
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07/01/2018