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500 Yen - Heisei Tochigi
| Issuer | Japan Mint |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Currency | Yen (1871-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | 日 本 国 TOCHIGI 栃木県 五 百 円 (Translation: State of Japan Tochigi 500 yen) |
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| Reverse script | Latin/Japanese |
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This piece belongs to Japan's 47 Prefectures Coin Program, a government initiative launched in 2008 to issue two commemorative 500 yen coins per prefecture — one celebrating local imagery, the other flora or landscape features. Tochigi Prefecture, home to the Nikkō Tōshō-gū shrine complex, received its issues across the program's multi-year rollout. The coins were sold through Japan Post in sets rather than circulated widely, meaning most survivors are in original packaging.