500 Yen - Heisei Kagawa

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

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Features

Issuer Japan
Emperor Heisei (1989-2019)
Type Circulating commemorative coin
Year 26 (2014)
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
Weight 7.1 g
Diameter 26.5 mm
Thickness 1.8 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
69308
References Y# 217,
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# 07-136
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

The Sanuki Plain viewed from Kotohira-gu Shrine

Lettering:
日 本 国
KAGAWA
香川県
五 百 円

Translation:
State of Japan
Kagawa
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 26 年

Translation:
Local autonomy
Year 26 of Heisei

Edge

Slanted reeding with two different pitches

500 Yen - Heisei (Kagawa) -  obverse

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Mint

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

Comments

Known familiarly as “Sanuki (an old name of Kagawa) no Konpira-san” for a long time, it is a representative spot in Kagawa. It is famous as a guardian god of the sea, attracting about 3 million visitors a year from around the country. Along an approach of the long stone stairway with 785 steps to the main shrine and 1,368 steps to the inner shrine, there are historic buildings designated as national important cultural properties such as “Shoin (drawing room)” and “Asahi-sha shrine,” as well as “Hōmotsu-kan (treasure museum)” which stores highly valued artistic works and cultural properties. Green scenery of Sanuki Plain can be viewed from the observation deck of this shrine.

The Sanuki Plain is a representative plain in Shikoku, which is located between Seto Inland Sea and Sanuki mountain range. Managed woodlands or mountains near human settlements in a triangle shape and more than fourteen thousand storage reservoir creates a unique landscape.

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Date Mintage VG F VF XF AU UNC Frequency
26 (2014)  1 600 000 $ 8.60 97%
26 (2014)  30 000 3% Proof

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