1000 Yen - Heisei Earthquake 1

1000 Yen - Heisei (Earthquake 1) - obverse1000 Yen - Heisei (Earthquake 1) - reverse

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Features

Issuer Japan
Emperor Heisei (1989-2019)
Type Non-circulating coin
Year 27 (2015)
Calendar Japanese - Heisei era
Value 1000 Yen
1000 JPY = USD 6.60
Currency Yen (1871-date)
Composition Silver (.999)
Weight 31.1 g
Diameter 40.0 mm
Thickness 3.5 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled, coloured
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
123699
References Y# 242,
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# 03-67
Japan Numismatic Dealers Association (editor); 2023. 日本貨幣カタログ = The Catalog of Japanese Currency. Self-published, Tokyo, Japan.

Commemorative issue

First relief event

Series: Great East Japan Earthquake Reconstruction Project

Obverse

Fishing boat with flags, ears of rice arching over
Colorized

Script: Chinese

Lettering:
日 本 国
1000 円

Translation:
State of Japan
1000 Yen

Reverse

Birds in flight, tree in the middle, clouds and landscape in the background

Scripts: Chinese, Hiragana

Lettering:
が ん ば ろ う 日 本
• 平 成 27 年 •

Translation:
Let's do our best Japan
Year 27 of Heisei

Edge

Slanted reeding right

1000 Yen - Heisei (Earthquake 1) -  obverse

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Mint

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

Comments

Minted to commemorate the earthquake reconstruction project of the Great Tōhoku Earthquake which hit east Japan on March 11, 2011.

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Date Mintage VG F VF XF AU UNC
27 (2015)  60 000 Proof

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