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500 Yen - Heisei Miyagi
| Issuer | Japan Mint |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | The central field depicts a group of fukinagashi (streaming decorative streamers) and tanzaku (poem strip) ornaments characteristic of the Sendai Tanabata Matsuri festival, rendered in fine relief against a polished background. A sprig of bamboo with leaves is visible to the right of the composition, evoking the traditional Tanabata bamboo pole display. The legend 日本国 (State of Japan) arcs along the upper border within a beaded inner circle, while 五百円 (500 yen) appears along the lower border. The prefecture name is inscribed in both Latin script (MIYAGI) and kanji (宮城県) in the right field. |
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| Edge | Slanted reeding with two different pitches |
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This piece belongs to Japan's 47 Prefectures Coin Program, a rotating commemorative series launched in 2008 that issued two 500 yen bimetallic coins per prefecture over successive years. Miyagi Prefecture's selection for the 2013 issue carried particular weight — the prefecture's Pacific coastline had been devastated by the March 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, and the program's continuation through Miyagi was widely noted as an act of institutional acknowledgment during the reconstruction period.
The 47 Prefectures series was distributed exclusively through sets sold by Japan Post, meaning circulated examples are genuinely unusual.