Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- One (1) 500 yen coin, specimen
- Japan, 1982
- Obverse Image: Paulownia flowers and leaves in th ecenter with kanji above and below.
- Obverse Text: Romanization: NIHON / KUNI / GO / HYAKU / EN (Translation: Japan, Five Hundred yen)
- Reverse Image: Large 500 inscribed in the center, bamboo leaves at the top and bottom with wild oranges on the right and left, date in Kanji below.
- Reverse Text: Romanization: 500 / SHOWA / GO / JU / SHICHI / NEN (Translation: 500 Showa year 57).
- Rim Text: NIPPON / 500 / NIPPON / 500
- General Information: Specimen no. 21
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- 1982
- Credit Line
- The Bank of Japan through Ysuo Tanahashi
- Physical Description
- copper-nickel (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2 mm x 26.5 mm; 3/32 in x 1 1/32 in
- Object Name
- coin
