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10'000 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games 2020
| Issuer | Japan |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | 2020年夏季オリンピック Tokyo 2020年夏季オリンピック (Translation: 2020 Tokyo Olympics Tokyo 2020 Tokyo Olympics) |
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| Reverse lettering | 2020年夏季オリンピック 10000 (Translation: 2020 Tokyo Olympics 10000) |
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Japan's 10,000 yen commemorative for the Tokyo 2020 Games was issued by the Bank of Japan as a legal tender note, not a collector-only certificate — it entered general circulation alongside standard series notes. The timing proved awkward: the Games themselves were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, meaning the commemorative's stated year never matched the actual event year on the calendars of the public receiving it.
Production used the same high-security substrate and intaglio printing processes as regular issue 10,000 yen notes, with no degradation in anti-counterfeiting specification despite the commemorative status.