Wadōkaichin
Coinage used in Japan from the 8th century to 958 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Wadōkaichin (和同開珎), also romanized as Wadō-kaichin or called Wadō-kaihō, is the oldest official Japanese coinage, first mentioned for 29 August 708[1] on order of Empress Genmei.[2][3][4] It was long considered to be the first type of coin produced in Japan. Analyses of several findings of Fuhon-sen (富夲銭) in Asuka[5] have shown that those coins were manufactured from 683.