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500 Yen - Heisei Hiroshima
| Issuer | Japan Mint |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse lettering | JAPAN 47 PREFECTURES COIN PROGRAM 地 方(47/60)自 治 500 YEN 平成 25 年 (Translation: Local autonomy Year 25 of Heisei) |
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| Mintage | 25 (2013) - - 1,670,000 25 (2013) - Proof - 30,000 |
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Issued as part of Japan's 47 Prefectures Coin Program, a series launched in 2008 to produce two commemorative 500-yen coins for each prefecture over roughly two decades. Hiroshima's second issue appeared in 2013. The program was itself a response to declining public interest in domestic commemorative coinage — the Mint needed a long-running, regionally specific series to sustain collector engagement across Japan's entire administrative geography.
The bimetallic format incorporates latent image and micro-lettering security features added to the 500-yen specification in 2000, following a well-documented counterfeiting problem with the earlier clad version.