500 Yen - Heisei Miyazaki

500 Yen - Heisei (Miyazaki) - obverse500 Yen - Heisei (Miyazaki) - reverse

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Features

Issuer Japan
Emperor Heisei (1989-2019)
Type Circulating commemorative coin
Year 24 (2012)
Calendar Japanese - Heisei era
Value 500 Yen
500 JPY = USD 3.30
Currency Yen (1871-date)
Composition Bimetallic: copper-nickel centre in nickel brass ring (75% Copper, 12.5% Zinc, 12.5% Nickel)
Weight 7.1 g
Diameter 26.5 mm
Thickness 1.8 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
38890
References Y# 187,
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# 07-122
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

60th anniversary of Local Autonomy Law

Series: 47 prefectures of Japan coin program

Obverse

Main Building, Miyazaki Prefectural Government

Lettering:
日 本 国
MIYAZAKI
宮崎県
五 百 円

Translation:
State of Japan
Miyazaki
500 yen

Reverse

Old cast Mon coin with latent images in square hole
surrounded by legends

Lettering:
JAPAN 47 PREFECTURES COIN PROGRAM
  地
方(47/60)自
  治
500 YEN 平成 24 年

Translation:
Local autonomy
Year 24 of Heisei

Edge

Slanted reeding with two different pitches

500 Yen - Heisei (Miyazaki) -  obverse

© Idolenz (CC BY-NC)

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 Frequency
24 (2012)  1 710 000 $ 11 98%
24 (2012)  30 000 0.7% Proof

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