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Japan announces Kyoto and Shimane coin designs - CoinNews
Jun 26 at 5:05pm
Japan Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga announced in a press conference Tuesday the themes and designs for the Kyoto and Shimane Prefectures ¥1,000 and ¥500 commemorative coins.
The Kyoto design features a scene from “The Tale of Genji,” the literary romantic classic set in Kyoto and written by Murasaki Shikibu in the eleventh century. The Shimane design depicts an oval-shaped coin minted in the 16th century at the Iwami GinZan silver mine in Shimane.
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‘Tale of Genji’ to grace Kyoto coin - The Japan Times Online
Jun 25 at 3:03pm
The government will issue a commemorative ¥1,000 coin in October featuring a scene from “The Tale of Genji,” the literary classic set in Kyoto, Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga said Tuesday.
Another ¥1,000 coin, to be released in December, will bear the image of an oval-shaped coin minted in the 16th century at the Iwami silver mine in Shimane Prefecture.
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Japanese Hokkaido commemorative coin - CoinNews
May 15 at 11:11am
Japan will issue a new colorized Hokkaido commemorative silver coin featuring Japanese red-crowned cranes, a symbol of Hokkaido, flying above Hokkaido’s Lake Toya.
Japan’s Finance Minister, Fukushiro Nukaga, made the announcement Tuesday in a press conference after a cabinet meeting. Mr. Nukaga said a 1,000-yen Hokkaido commemorative coin would be issued this July in time for the Group of Eight summit, which will be held in Hokkaido.
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Hokkaido coin to mark Group of Eight summit (G8) - The Japan Times
May 14 at 9:09pm
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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Japan commemorative coins creating collector boom - The Japan Times
May 14 at 9:09pm
Interest in large, oval Japanese coins and commemorative coins made of gold is deep-rooted among collectors, as exemplified by a recent bid of more than ¥30 million for a ¥2 gold coin issued in 1880.
The first commemorative coins issued in Japan were to mark the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games — 80 million silver ¥100 coins and 15 million silver ¥1,000 coins, the Finance Ministry said.
“They triggered a coin boom in Japan. At the peak, a ¥1,000 silver coin sold for nearly ¥20,000,” said an official at Taisei Coins Corp., a major coin importer and seller in Tokyo.
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