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1000 Yen - Reiwa Iriomote-Ishigaki National Park
| Issuer | Japan Mint |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Value | 1000 Yen |
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| Obverse description | Central field features a full-color depiction of an Iriomote wild cat (Prionailurus bengalensis iriomotensis) rendered in naturalistic detail, shown walking in profile toward the left, set against a color photographic rendering of the turquoise waters and forested shoreline of Kabira Bay. Tropical foliage and ferns are shown in silver relief at the base of the design. The legend 日本国 (State of Japan) appears in kanji at the upper field flanking the colored scene, with the denomination 千円 (1000 Yen) inscribed in kanji at the lower left. Along the lower arc, the park name appears in both Latin script as 'Iriomote-Ishigaki National Park' and in Japanese kanji as 西表石垣国立公園. |
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| Mintage | 6 (2024) - Proof - 40,000 |
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Part of Japan's ongoing "National Parks" commemorative program, which has issued collector silver pieces tied to designated protected areas since 2016. Iriomote-Ishigaki was designated Japan's 33rd national park in 2007, covering the Yaeyama Islands at the southwestern extreme of Okinawa Prefecture — closer to Taiwan than to the Japanese mainland.
Iriomote Island holds one of Japan's last remaining subtropical rainforests and is the primary habitat of the Iriomote cat, a wild felid discovered by science only in 1967.