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500 Yen
| Issuer | Bank of Japan |
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| Year | 1969-1994 |
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| Value | 500 Yen |
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| Obverse lettering | 日本銀行券 五百円 岩倉 具視 日本銀行 500 五百 大蔵省印刷局製造 (Translation: Note of the Bank of Japan / 500 Yen / Tomomi Iwakura / Bank of Japan / 500 / 500 / Manufactured by the Ministry of Finance Printing Bureau) |
| Reverse description | A detailed intaglio landscape vignette of Mount Fuji viewed from the foothills dominates the centre-left, with trees and lower mountain ridges in the foreground. To the right, a large ornate guilloche rosette encloses the numeral 500, with a red Ministry of Finance seal overlapping the design below. The inscription NIPPON GINKO appears in a decorative cartouche at the top, and 500 YEN is lettered in a guilloche band along the bottom border. |
| Reverse lettering | NIPPON GINKO 500 500 500 YEN (Translation: Bank of Japan) |
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