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1000 Yen - Heisei Shinkansen
| Issuer | Japan Mint |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Currency | Yen (1871-date) |
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| Obverse script | Japanese (Kanji) |
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| Reverse lettering | · 新幹線鉄道開業50年 · 1000 YEN · 平成26年 (Translation: · 50th Anniversary of the Shinkansen · 1000 yen · Year 26 of Heisei) |
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Issued as part of Japan's ongoing commemorative program marking the 50th anniversary of the Tōkaidō Shinkansen, which opened on October 1, 1964 — ten days before the Tokyo Olympics began. The timing of that original launch was deliberate political theater: the bullet train was Japan's most visible proof that the country had rebuilt itself into a technological power less than two decades after unconditional surrender.
The .999 silver specification places this outside Japan's standard commemorative silver coinage, which historically used .925.