Yen

the unit of Japanese money. Accounts are kept in yens, sens, and rins. The yen is worth a trifle less than half a dollar of American money. The sen is the hundredth part of a yen and the rin is the tenth part of a sen. Gold is coined in twenty, ten, and five yen pieces; silver in fifty, twenty, and ten sen pieces; nickel in five sen pieces; and bronze coins in one sen and five rin pieces. The lowest coin, the five rin piece, is worth, therefore, 1/200 of a yen, approximately one-fourth of a cent.