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1 Sen - Taishō
| Issuer | Imperial Japanese Mint |
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| Year | 1913-1915 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse lettering | 一 錢 (Translation: 1 Sen) |
| Reverse description | Central device depicts the imperial sun disk (Hinomaru) rendered as a large circular boss emitting alternating long and short radiating rays, enclosed within a beaded inner circle. The sunburst motif fills the central field and is surrounded by a circular legend in kanji characters arranged around the periphery reading 'Great Japan · Year [N] of Taishō', with individual characters spaced between decorative separators. The romanized denomination '1 SEN' appears in the lower exergual area, and the entire design is contained within a rope-twist border. |
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The Taishō era opened with a significant monetary housekeeping problem: the Meiji-period sen coinage had been struck to slightly varying standards across decades, and the new reign offered a clean administrative moment to regularize production. These early Taishō bronzes were struck at the Osaka Mint, which by this point had fully shed its reliance on foreign technical staff — the last British advisors had departed in the 1890s. The three-year window of this type is narrow enough that total mintage across all dates remains modest by Japanese Imperial standards.