Silver Phoenix, silver rice, cupronickel cherry
Postwar 100 Yen Transition
Compare the 1957 Phoenix silver, 1959 rice-stalk silver, and 1967 cherry-blossom cupronickel regular types without mixing in commemoratives.
戦後百円貨幣
- Core routes
- 20
- Issue studies
- 14
- Exact image pairs
- 15
- Indexable routes
- 0
Context
Historical and monetary setting
The three regular types share a 22.6 mm diameter and 4.8 g mass. The 1967 change responded to growing coin demand and constrained silver supply.
Identification
How to classify the object
Design and alloy, not dimensions alone, distinguish Phoenix, rice-stalk, and cherry-blossom generations.
Evidence boundary
What this page does not claim
Olympic and other commemorative 100-yen coins remain outside the regular circulation lineage.
| Series | Production | Legal issue | Material | Edge | Successor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phoenix 100 Yen Silver | 1957 | 1957 | silver | reeded | jp-p6-series-100-yen-silver-rice |
| Rice-Stalk 100 Yen Silver | 1959 | 1959 | silver | reeded | jp-current-100-yen-cupronickel |
| Cherry-Blossom 100 Yen Cupronickel | 1967 | 1967 | copper | reeded | jp-current-100-yen-cupronickel |
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Evidence
Sources and scope
These links support the claims on this page. Source authority does not imply permission to republish source images.
Current and older valid 1-, 5-, 10-, 50-, and 100-yen design generations and official dimensions.
Open sourceOfficial specifications, first-issue years, legal-expiry dates, wartime and postwar regular types.
Open sourceObverse/reverse convention, unissued ceramic status, postwar brass scrap composition, edge changes, and later silver-to-cupronickel transition.
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