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500 Yen - Heisei Okinawa
| Issuer | Japan Mint |
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| Year | 2012 |
| Type | Commemorative circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | The central field features a dynamic depiction of the Naha Giant Tug-of-War (那覇大綱挽), one of Okinawa's most celebrated traditional festivals, showing participants straining over an enormous rope, with Eisa folk dancers rendered in high relief to the upper left. The composition is framed by a beaded border, with the denomination 五百円 (500 yen) divided across the lower left and right fields. The legends 日本国 (State of Japan), OKINAWA, and 沖縄県 (Okinawa Prefecture) appear in the upper portion of the field, integrating both Latin and Japanese scripts in a bold, layered design characteristic of the 47 Prefectures Coin Programme. |
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| Obverse lettering | 日 本 国 OKINAWA 沖縄県 五 百 円 (Translation: State of Japan Okinawa 500 yen) |
| Reverse description | The centre of the coin depicts a stylised representation of an ancient cast Mon coin, rendered in circular form with a square central hole, bearing the four kanji characters 地方自治 (local autonomy) arranged around the perforation in the manner of traditional East Asian cash coinage. This central device occupies the copper-nickel inner disc and is surrounded by a granulated field. The nickel-brass outer ring carries the Latin legend JAPAN 47 PREFECTURES COIN PROGRAM along the upper arc, with the denomination 500 YEN and the Japanese date 平成24年 (Year 24 of Heisei, 2012) distributed along the lower arc, all enclosed within a beaded border. |
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