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500 Yen - Heisei Fukushima
| Issuer | Japan Mint |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Currency | Yen (1871-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin/Japanese |
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| Mintage | 28 (2016) - - 1,620,000 28 (2016) - Proof - 30,000 |
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Part of the 47 Prefectures Coin Program, a decade-long series the Japan Mint ran from 2008 to 2016 issuing two prefectural designs per year. Fukushima was among the final releases. The program was conceived as a circulation commemorative, though in practice most pieces were absorbed by collectors immediately and never spent.
The timing of this issue is difficult to ignore: five years after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and the subsequent Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, minting a celebratory coin for the prefecture carried an unmistakable political dimension — a quiet act of official rehabilitation for a region still managing exclusion zones.