Representative transition issue
Early Meiji Gold 1 Yen
The one-yen gold denomination embodies the initial decimal gold standard in a small machine-struck coin.
旧一円金貨
- Date
- 明治七年 (1874)
- Denomination
- 1 Yen
- Form
- round
- Local status
- Published
Context
Historical and monetary setting
It belongs to the old-gold design generation and must not be merged with the reduced-size 1897 new-gold family.
Identification
How to classify the evidence
Verify the era date, denomination, dragon and reverse devices, mass, diameter, fineness, edge, and die details.
Evidence boundary
What this page does not claim
The installed Meiji 7 image represents that dated example; specifications remain review-required until the official table is fully transcribed.
Issue evidence
Specifications and date record
- Display date
- 明治七年 (1874)
- Mass
- —
- Catalog fineness
- 90%
- Edge
- verify by subtype
- Image status
- cleared exact dated representative
- Identity confidence
- high
Era-date rule: Meiji 7 is stored separately from Gregorian 1874; Meiji gannen is 1868.
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Evidence
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Identification of early gold, silver, trade, rin, and sen coinage.
Open sourceOsaka mint establishment, modern machinery, institutional history, and coin standards.
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