Hokkaido coin to mark Group of Eight summit (G8) - The Japan Times
May 14
A ¥1,000 coin bearing the design of Hokkaido’s Lake Toya, the site of this year’s Group of Eight summit, and Japanese red-crowned cranes, a symbol of Hokkaido, will be issued in time for the July 7-9 summit, the government said Tuesday.
The coin will be the first of 94 types — ¥500 and ¥1,000 coins for each of the 47 prefectures — to be minted over the next eight years to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the enforcement of the Local Autonomy Law, the Finance Ministry said.
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