Japanese Coins Large and Small. Japan has six coins in circulation with values ranging from ¥1 to ¥500. The front, or obverse, side of each features a different image, normally a variety of ...

I’ m Japanese but I didn’t know that. I think the 5-yen coins look like Recently, Giza 10 tends to trade at high prices because it is very rare. Sometimes the 5-yen coins and the 50-yen coins also ...

The face value of the coins is 1 sen, the equivalent of one-one hundredth of a yen. Today, 1 yen is worth 0.65 cents in USD, less than a penny. Close-up photos show the ceramic coin, ...

TOKYO -- Japan's 5 yen coin is becoming more expensive to produce amid higher materials prices and an unfavorable exchange rate, raising the possibility that the per-coin production cost will ...