500 Yen - Shōwa Seikan Tunnel

500 Yen - Shōwa (Seikan Tunnel) - obverse500 Yen - Shōwa (Seikan Tunnel) - reverse

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Features

Issuer Japan
Emperor Shōwa (1926-1989)
Type Circulating commemorative coin
Year 63 (1988)
Calendar Japanese - Shōwa era
Value 500 Yen
500 JPY = USD 3.30
Currency Yen (1871-date)
Composition Copper-nickel (75% Copper, 25% Nickel)
Weight 13 g
Diameter 30 mm
Thickness 2.75 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
10962
References Y# 93,
Richard S. Yeoman, Arthur L. Friedberg; 2007. A Catalog of Modern World Coins : 1850-1964 (14th edition). Whitman Publishing Company, Atlanta, United States.
And 1 more volumes.
JNDA# 03-12,
Japan Numismatic Dealers Association (editor); 2023. 日本貨幣カタログ = The Catalog of Japanese Currency. Self-published, Tokyo, Japan.
Schön# 70
Gerhard Schön; 2022. Weltmünzkatalog / 20. Jahrhundert: 1901-2000 (47. Auflage). Battenberg Gietl Verlag, Regenstauf, Germany.
And 1 more volumes.

Commemorative issue

Opening of the Seikan Tunnel

Obverse

Tunnel, waves and seagulls, authority above, value below

Script: Chinese

Lettering:
日 本 国
五 百 円

Translation:
State of Japan
500 yen

Reverse

Map of Hokkaido in a waved ribbon, legends around

Scripts: Chinese, Katakana

Lettering:
青函トンネル開通
500円 昭和63年

Translation:
Seikan tunnel opening
500 yen Year 63 of Shōwa

Edge

Reeded with incuse inscriptions

Script: Latin

Lettering: SEIKAN TUNNEL '88 ◆ 88, ˥ƎNN∩┴ N∀ʞIƎS ◆

500 Yen - Shōwa (Seikan Tunnel) -  obverse

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Mint

Japan Mint (独立行政法人造幣局 / Dokuritsu Gyōsei Hōjin Zōheikyoku), Japan

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Date Mintage VG F VF XF AU UNC
63 (1988)  20 000 000 $ 6.20 $ 6.20

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