2021 Commemorative Silver Medal for the Issue of the 500 Yen Bicolor Clad Coin

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06 September 2021
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Japan Mint have produced a special medal to commemorate the issue of the 500 yen bicolour clad coin.

Obverse: The design shows the obverse and reverse of the 500 yen bicolour clad coin

Reverse: The design features the new anti-counterfeiting techniques used on the 500 yen bicolour clad coin (bicolour cladding, helical ridges with two different pitches, and micro lettering)

New anti-counterfeiting technologies applied to the new 500 yen coin:

  1. Application of new technology, bicolour clad , to the materials (two colour, three layer structure)
  2. Application of “ helical ridges with two different pitches ” to the edge of the coin
  3. Micro lettering and numbers will be inscribed on the inside rim of the front of the coin

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