This is a typical one yen coin. In today's exchange rate, it worth less than one U.S. cent ($0.0098, to be exact). But recently, a one yen coin sold in Japan for the price of a car. Why? Well, it ...

Akao Aluminum Co., Japan’s only supplier of one-yen coins, produced its first batch in four years to meet an expected surge in demand for small change when the country’s sales tax increases to ...

I really like the font on the old 5 yen coins, and like how they used the old kanji for 国（國) I wish all the coins used a kaisho type font instead of gothic. The floating 1 yen coin is also quite cool ...

The number of one-yen coins in circulation has fallen sharply in Japan, and the government has stopped minting new ones for circulation, while deteriorating units are being withdrawn. Do you still use ...

2023 huge 1 yen coin 1000 yen 2023 huge 1 yen coin 3000 yen Perfect for WF souvenirs 7/30 (Sunday) Makuhari Messe Wonder Festival to be sold Table number 5-6-11 It is an unpainted resin cast kit .

The Japanese yen is divided into 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, and 500 coin denominations. Some of these coins, 10, 50, 100, and 500, are widely accepted as forms of payment across Japan, whether purchasing ...

A single aluminum one yen coin doesn't work in vending machines and there's nothing you can buy with it, but the direction of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's pro-growth policies could be riding on ...

TOKYO -- A new 500-yen coin designed to be difficult to counterfeit began circulating Tuesday. Some 200 million coins were issued on the day and a total of 800 million are expected to be in ...

I n Japan, foreigners learn soon enough that a one-yen coin floats on water (or beer), a perfect analogy for the last few years of the dollar’s strength against Japanese currency. Now, however ...

Akao Aluminum Co., Japan’s only supplier of one-yen coins, produced its first batch in four years to meet an expected surge in demand for small change when the country’s sales tax increases to 8 ...