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  2. List of Japanese cash coins by inscription - Wikipedia

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    Cash coins were introduced to Japan in the century inspired by the Chinese Kaigen Tsūhō (開元通寳) cash coins from the Tang dynasty. Chinese cash coins also circulated in other countries and inspired similar currencies such as the Korean mun , Ryukyuan mon , Vietnamese văn , while they also circulated as far south as Indonesia .

  3. Japanese currency - Wikipedia

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    The earliest coins to reach Japan were Chinese Ban Liang and Wu Zhu coins, as well as the coins produced by Wang Mang during the first centuries of the first millennium CE; these coins have been excavated all over Japan, but as Japan's economy was not sufficiently developed at the time, these coins were more likely to be used as precious ...

  4. 1 yen coin - Wikipedia

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    The decision was made to use silver one yen coins exclusively outside of Japan for trade, while gold coins were minted and used in mainland Japan. Gold and silver coins were eventually allowed to co-circulate in mainland Japan from 1878 to 1897 when they were demonetized.

  5. Tokugawa coinage - Wikipedia

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    Initially, the coinage was used essentially for export purposes in order to pay for imports of luxury goods from China, such as silk. [2] As gold and silver were in short supply, and also because the government was running a deficit, the content of gold in coins was decreased on two occasions, in 1695 and 1706–11, in order to generate more revenues from seigneurage, but with the effect of ...

  6. List of Japanese coinage patterns - Wikipedia

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    Experimental Japanese coins were struck in porcelain towards the end of World War II. These pattern coins were never issued for circulation, though some privately made ones circulated unofficially. The following is a list of Japanese pattern coins from the yen based currency system started under the Meiji Restoration. [1]

  7. 10 yen coin - Wikipedia

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    The first ten yen coins made after World War II were authorized by law on March 2, 1950, by prime minister Shigeru Yoshida. These coins were to be made of German Silver, and act as "temporary subsidiary coins". [23] A total of 432,970,000 ten yen coins minted in this new alloy were recorded as struck by the end of that year.

  8. Japanese mon (currency) - Wikipedia

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    As Bitasen coins were no longer allowed to circulate within Japan, Japanese traders started selling them on foreign markets for profits, especially on the Vietnamese market where a huge influx of Eiraku Tsūhō and Kan'ei Tsūhō coins from Japan made the Japanese mon the de facto currency of the region.

  9. 5000 yen coin - Wikipedia

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    The 5,000 yen coin is a denomination of the Japanese yen used only for commemoratives struck by the Japan Mint. These are made only for collectors who purchase them directly from the mint at a premium. 5000 yen commemorative coins have historically been struck in a silver alloy since 1990.