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	Yen \| Topic Definition \| Find the Meaning and Define the Answer of Yen
		The yen was introduced by the Meiji government (Meiji 4) as a system resembling those in Europe; yen replaced the overly complex monetary system of the Edo Period.
		The Latinized symbol for the Yen however, is identical to the one for the Yuan, although the PRC tends to use one crossbar instead of two.
		500 yen coins are probably the highest valued coins to be used regularly in the world; the United States's largest standard coin is worth 26 yen, the European Union's largest is worth 260 yen, and the United Kingdom's largest is worth 388 yen (as of January 2005).
	www.thefreeencyclopedia.com /definition/word.aspx?w=Yen (643 words)

	5 yen coin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 5 yen coin is one denomination of Japanese yen.
		Five-yen coins date to 1870 (when, due to the much higher value of the yen, they were minted in gold).
		The front of the coin depicts a rice plant growing out of the water, with "five yen" written in kanji; the back is stamped with "Japan" and the year of issue, also in kanji, separated by sprouts of a tree.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/5_yen_coin (412 words)

	Coin discrimination apparatus - Patent 4576275
		Counterfeit coins are removed from the coin path between the two plates at an upstream portion thereof in response to a discrimination signal from an electronic discrimination unit.
		The conveying direction of the coins such as 10 yen, 50 yen, 100 yen and 500 yen coins having a larger diameter than that of the 50 yen coin is reversed at the first cradle C1, and the coins are guided to the electronic discriminator 5.
		The coin M passes along a coin path R formed between the main plate 1 while the coin M is urged by the coin regulator 6 against the main plate 1.
	www.freepatentsonline.com /4576275.html (3475 words)

	Japanese Yen and Chinese Cash Coin - foreign coin collecting
		The yen (en) was established as the official unit of currency in 1871.
		The 500, 100 and 50 yen coins are made of nickel, the 10 yen of bronze, the 5 yen of copper and the 1 yen of aluminium.
		With holes through the center, the 50 yen and more often the 5 yen coin are considered lucky and often used in charms.
	gometaldetecting.com /foreign-coins3.html (706 words)

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		This means 1 yen is worth a little less than 1 cent, and to convert from yen to dollars you basically have to divide by 100 to convert from yen to dollars.
		Coins range from 500 yen (a $5 coin) to 1 yen, including 100, 50, 10, and 5 yen.
		The a 500 yen coin is bigger, and a 1 yen coin is smaller, but the average size (in both diameter and width) of a coin is about the size of a quarter.
	penguinppc.org /~hollisb/personal/nihon/day2_money.html (291 words)

	Japanese Culture Center - Japanese Currency
		There is also a 5 hundred yen bill, but is no longer being produced and has been replaced with a 500 yen coin.
		The thousand yen being the shortest, the 5 thousand yen bill is approximately 1 cm longer and the 10 thousand yen bill is 1 cm longer than the 5 thousand.
		The 5 yen coin in Japanese is pronounced "go-en".
	www.yesjapan.com /culture/cc-Currency.shtml (142 words)

	Dean and Sue Zemke - Asahikawa, Hokkaido JAPAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Japan's main unit of currency is the yen (or en) (symbol: ¥).
		The 5000 yen note features Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-96), a novelist and poet, the first woman to be depicted on a Bank of Japan note.
		The 2000 yen note, released in 2000 specifically for the new year, is rarely used, as it's popularity has not caught on.
	www.freewebs.com /dszemke/japanesemoney.htm (458 words)

	10 yen coin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 10 yen coin is one denomination of Japanese yen.
		The obverse of the coin depicts the Phoenix Hall of Byōdō-in, a Buddhist temple in Uji, Kyoto, with the kanji for "Japan" and "Ten Yen." The reverse shows the numerals "10" and the date of issue in kanji surrounded by bay laurel leaves.
		10-yen coins issued between 1953 and 1958 have serrated edges, while 10-yen coins issued from 1959 onward do not; the older serrated coins are popular among collectors, and unused specimens are highly prized.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/10_yen_coin (126 words)

	The Ultimate Yen Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
		The yen was pegged at 1 US dollar = ¥360 from April 25, 1949, to until 1971 when the Bretton Woods system collapsed and the value of the Yen began to float.
		As of March 2005, there are about ¥105 to the US dollar, about ¥139 to the Euro, and about ¥201 to the pound sterling.
		The United States's largest-valued commonly-used coin (25¢) is worth 26 yen; the European Union's largest (€2) is worth ¥279, and the United Kingdom's largest (£2) is worth ¥402 (as of March 2005).
	www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/Yen (662 words)

	Japanese Coins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Therefore a coin minted in 1946 would be dated Showa 21, Showa for Emperor Hirohito and 21 being the 21st year of his reign.
		Coins minted during his reign would be dated from Showa 1 through Showa 63, and would be those most common during our time at Camp Hakata.
		When I was in Japan, the exchange rate was 360 yen to the dollar, so one yen would have been worth.36 cents, slightly over one third of a penny.
	home.att.net /~fukuoka/coins-1.htm (176 words)

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		The 5-yen coin is made of brass, and shows an ear of rice, a gear, and water.
		The 10-yen coin is bronze, with a Japanese temple on it.
		Commemorative coins show a special person, place, or event, and are mostly made to be collected.
	www.usmint.gov /Kids/index.cfm?fileContents=cartoons/coinsOfTheWorld/japan&pg=04 (485 words)

	da Yen Yen is the currency currency used in...
		The yen was legally defined as 0.8667 troy ounces (416 grains) of silver and whose definition is actually still legally enforceable today.
		The yen was pegged at 1 US dollar = 360 yen from April 25 April 25, 1949 1949, to 1971 1971.
		The yen was originally written as the same way as the Chinese Yuan Yuan (圓 pinyin pinyin yuan2), modern writings use a simplified different character (円) instead (cf.
	www.biodatabase.de /Yen (431 words)

	Coining in Fukuoka
		Before that, there is a multi-hundred-year history of base coins that were cast in bronze (like the 100-mon oval coin at right), and a slightly briefer history of higher value hammered silver and gold amalgam coins were made of rectangles possibly cut from sheets, shown at left.
		Of the 152, 10 are historic gold coins of the Meiji (1870-1912), Taisho (1912-1926), and early Showa (1926-1931) eras, and 10 are modern gold coins – one of the late Showa (1986) and 9 of the current Heisei (1989-present) era.
		The coins he selects from circulation are always high-grade AU coins, and some are indistinguishable from BU quality.
	www.michigancoinclub.org /fukuoka.htm (1938 words)

	Runker Room : Japan : About Japanese Coins
		One side of each coin (with the exception of the 5 yen) shows the value in Arabic numerals and the year in which the coin was minted, written in kanji (Chinese characters) or a combination of kanji and Arabic numerals.
		Most of the coins encountered these days are either Heisei (The Era of Achieving Peace under Akihito, emperor since 1989) or Showa (The Era of Enlightened Peace under the previous emperor, Hirohito, 64 years from 1926 to 1989).
		Japanese Coins History and gallery by S.A. Temeryazev in Nahodka, Russia.
	www.geocities.com /Tokyo/Island/6653/jcoins.htm (668 words)

	50 yen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		50 yen is one of the only two coins with a hole in the middle.
		The coin has a silver color and it is made of cupro-nickel, or a combination of copper and nickel that is resistant to corrosion by salt water.
		Now it is the 14th year of Heisei, and on the bottom of this coin it says that this coin was made in the year 6 of the Heisei era.
	jls-web.pausd.palo-alto.ca.us /~mwillis/wd/spring04/3/Yuan/collection/50yen.html (230 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It was an excellent topic because we only had 10 yen and 5 yen coin at that time.
		This 50 yen coin was very popular, but somehow, it was stopped to publish only four years.
		The new 50 yen coin was not so unpopular because it was the same size of the former one.
	www.asahi-net.or.jp /~HD1t-KKC/50yen-e.html (564 words)

	Ranma: Miss Hinako
		5 yen coin that she uses to focus her chi-sucking and blasting attack.
		Using any round object, usually a 5 yen coin, to focus the attack she can absorb the fighting spirit of her attacker this temporarily turns her into the most shapely woman in the series.
		Due to the rather sensitve nature of the location of the nerve touches Ranma found it very hard to achive his goal without being branded a pervert.
	members.tripod.com /~Caboodle/ranma/hinabio.html (235 words)

	New to Japan - General - Japanese Money
		From 1949 to 1971 the rate was 360 yen to the dollar, which was then changed to 308 yen to the dollar.
		In the 1980's and 90's, the yen became increasingly used in international financial transactions and continued a steady climb against the dollar.
		It reached a peak rate of around 80 yen to the dollar in 1994 and was around 108 yen in October 1999.
	www.japan-zone.com /new/money.shtml (817 words)

	Halfbakery: coin-operated bullet proof vest
		the coins slide down channels sewn into the cloth, a nice slippery material such as re-inforced silk (I believe silk was used in early versions of bullet protection) and then stack up against each other in columns.
		In this case however, your design would weigh down the wearer uneccessarily, as coins are both heavy and not as effective as the current lightweight materials being used.
		Overlaying layers of copper and silvery coins for fashionable stripes, or predetermined coin slot drop for a picture effect, perhaps a shield of arms, family crest, or contemporary symbolism statement.
	www.halfbakery.com /idea/coin-operated_20bullet_20proof_20vest (1086 words)

	Portal:Numismatics - Medbib.com, the modern encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		While numismatists are often characterized as studying coins, the discipline also includes a much larger study of payment media used to resolve debts and the exchange of goods.
		The British Fifty Pence coin was issued on October 14, 1969 in the run-up to decimalisation.
		The coin× is minted from an alloy of 75% copper and 25% nickel.
	www.medbib.com /Portal:Numismatics (920 words)

	The Coin DOC's Answer Archive #4
		The other three coins are round in shape, two with the indian head and one with the bust of a man in a helmet.
		Your Question: We have a coin in the family that supposedly was made from the former cannons of the USS Constellation.
		You don't mention the denomination but the "grey" coins with this design were minted in zinc on the 1 reichspennig from 1940-45 and in Aluminum-bronze alloy on the 2,5 and 10 reichspfennig from 1936.
	www.coinsite.com /content/cdanswers/cdarchive4.asp (6565 words)

	Yen - Real Time & Delayed Quotes, Charts, News and Data for Futures, Stocks, Commodities and Indexes - TradeSignals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Bretton Woods system collapsed and the value of the Yen began to float.
		The Latinized symbol for the Yen however, is identical to the one for the Yuan, although the
		The 1,000 yen bill, at 76×150 mm is unchanged in size, and bears the likeness of Noguchi Hideyo.
	www.tradesignals.com /glossary/Yen (707 words)

	HEAVY LITTLE OBJECTS: #225 :: 5-yen Coin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The hole is said to be lucky, the characters (identified by my good and knowledgeable friends on the WELL as spelling out the mint date (1988) and the words "go-en" which mean "5 yen" and also sound like the word...
		The hole is said to be lucky, the characters (identified by my good and knowledgeable friends on the WELL as spelling out the mint date (1988) and the words "go-en" which mean "5 yen" and also sound like the word "fate," according to this guide.
		People are said to keep this coin for luck, or offer it at temples for prayer.
	www.factoidlabs.com /heavy/archives/000226.html (156 words)

	2000 World Coin Sets Available
		Many of the coins in these sets are only available as part of the complete set, as they may not have been issued for circulation.
		If there are sufficient of a particular denomination in circulation or in stock, it is common practice not to strike any coins of that denomination during the year.
		It is possible that many of the European coin sets listed will be the last of their type before the new "Euro" denomination coins are issued.
	www.24carat.co.uk /2000worldcoinsets.html (353 words)

	100 yen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The diameter of the coin is 2.26cm, or a little less than an inch.
		In the front, it says 100 for 100 yen, and on the back there is a picture of cherry blossom.
		The writing on the bottom of the front tells which year it is made of in.
	jls-web.pausd.palo-alto.ca.us /~mwillis/wd/spring04/3/Yuan/collection/100yen.html (245 words)

	::: JAPAN EXPEDITION : JAPANESE LIFE :::
		Worshippers approach the altar to the temple and make a small offering (generally a 5 yen coin) before praying.
		After prayer, a paper fortune - an omikuji - can be bought for 100 yen.
		These fortunes are rarely good and thus, once read, the omikuji are often tied to a tree so the wind can blow the bad luck away.
	sio.ucsd.edu /japan/history/temples.cfm (244 words)

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		The 5-yen coin features an ear of rice.
		For 50 years (1909 to 1958), one-cent coins showed wheat on the back, and are often called "wheat pennies." Wheat is grown in 42 of our 50 states.
	www.usmint.gov /kids/index.cfm?fileContents=cartoons/coinsOfTheWorld/japan&pg=13 (164 words)

	Varun Parekh's Coin Collection (Main Page) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		I have been collecting coins for more than 8 years now and I have put up this site to spread information and awareness about Indian and World Coinage.
		One of my goals as a coin collector is to have coins/currency from every country of the world.
		Since I do not purchase coins are exchange coins only with friends, my goals are materializing - though a tad bit slow!
	www.angelfire.com /on2/coins (197 words)

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