500 Yen - Heisei Chiba

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

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Features

Issuer Japan
Emperor Heisei (1989-2019)
Type Circulating commemorative coin
Year 27 (2015)
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#
83611
References Y# 240,
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# 07-145
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

View over Kujukuri Beach

Lettering:
日 本 国
CHIBA
千葉県
五 百 円

Translation:
State of Japan
Chiba
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 27 年

Translation:
Local autonomy
Year 27 of Heisei

Edge

Slanted reeding with two different pitches

500 Yen - Heisei (Chiba) -  obverse

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Mint

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

Comments

Kujukuri Beach stretches for a total length of approximately 66 km along the eastern shore of the Boso Peninsula in Chiba Prefecture, between Cape Gyobu in Asahi and Cape Taito in Isumi. Its name comes from the legend that Minamoto no Yoritomo stuck arrows into the beach at intervals of one ri (then approximately 660 m) apart, and found that 99 (kuju-ku) were needed to measure the entire distance from Cape Gyobu to Cape Taito. It is one of Japan’s longest sandy beaches, and the serenity and grandeur of its scenery have made it widely loved; in summer it is a popular resort area, particularly for sea bathing and sports camps.

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Date Mintage VG F VF XF AU UNC Frequency
27 (2015)  1 650 000 $ 8.40 97%
27 (2015)  30 000 0.8% Proof

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