Tuesday, October 29, 2019

New Coins for the New Era

Japan has started minting coins stamped with the new Imperial Era - Reiwa, which is translated as beautiful harmoney. Japan has a special way of noting the years - by the year of the emperor. The new Emperor Naruhito ascended to the throne on May 1st of this year, which became year one of the Reiwa era.


I haven't seen any of these new coins in my change yet, but I will be looking for them.






7 comments:

diamondc said...

Pamela: Very interesting, Mike still has coins from the late sixties and seventies.
I have to get them out and look at them, he has paper money also.

Catherine

Águeda said...

They are nice coins. Thnak you for to explain the new japanese era. I don't know that issue. It is very interesting .

Pink Rose said...

Hi Pamela hope you are ok ,I haven't heard from you and was worried.
This is a very interesting post ,I found foreign money very interesting and very different to us here in Australia xx

Carol- Beads and Birds said...

That's interesting. We don't have much change to our money over here. President Obama had approved having Harriet Tubman put on the $20 bill, but our racist president put a stop to it. I thought that change was a great idea.
xx, Carol

Jeanie said...

These are very pretty. I'm glad we don't do that with every administration -- it would cost a mint! I do wish we'd been able to get Harriet Tubman on the $20 before the administration changed. Maybe in another few years...

Mae Travels said...

Coins in other countries are always interesting. Didn't Japan used to have a multi=sided coin (instead of round) that was considered good luck?

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Leonore Winterer said...

How interesting. I'll have to carefully look at my change the next time I visit!