Issued to commemorate the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, this coin takes its name from Someity, the official Paralympic mascot — a character whose name plays on the Japanese phrase so mighty and references the Somei Yoshino cherry blossom variety. The Games were postponed from their original 2020 dates due to the COVID-19 pandemic and ultimately held in summer 2021, making this one of the few Olympic commemorative coin series struck for an event that did not occur in its nominal year.
Issued to commemorate the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, this coin takes its name from Someity, the official Paralympic mascot — a character whose name plays on the Japanese phrase so mighty and references the Somei Yoshino cherry blossom variety. The Games were postponed from their original 2020 dates due to the COVID-19 pandemic and ultimately held in summer 2021, making this one of the few Olympic commemorative coin series struck for an event that did not occur in its nominal year.