page_title: 5 sen coin
section_title: Meiji
hierarchical_section_title: 5 sen coin / Circulation figures / Meiji
caption_attribution_description: English: 5sen-M6 日本語: 五銭銀貨
context_page_description: The 5 sen coin was a Japanese coin worth one twentieth of a Japanese yen, as 100 sen equalled 1 yen. These coins were minted from the late 19th century until the end of World War II. Like the other denominations of sen, these coins were eventually taken out of circulation at the end of 1953. While not in circulation any more, these coins are bought and sold by numismatists for academic study, and by those with a hobby.
context_section_description: The following are circulation figures for five sen coins that were minted between the 3rd and 39th years of Emperor Meiji's reign. The dates all begin with the kanji characters 明治 (Meiji), followed by the year of his reign the coin was minted. Each coin is read clockwise from right to left, so in the example used below "四十二" would read as "year 24" or 1891. 
  "Year" ← "Number representing year of reign" ← "Emperor's name" (Ex: 年 ← 四十二 ← 治明)
caption: 5 sen coin from 1873 (year 6)
  Design 3 - (1873–1880), (1892)[a]
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