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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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