500 Yen - Heisei Ishikawa

Reverse

Old cast Mon coin with latent images in square hole
surrounded by legends

Lettering:
JAPAN 47 PREFECTURES COIN PROGRAM
　　地
方(47/60)自
　　治
500 YEN　平成 26 年

Translation:
Local autonomy
Year 26 of Heisei

Edge

Slanted reeding with two different pitches

Comment

Mt. Haku is counted as one of the three most famous mountains in Japan along with Mt. Fuji and Mt. Tateyama. Blessed with rich natural environment such as plentiful alpine flora, one of the largest primeval beech forests in Japan, and various animals, it was designated as a national park in 1962. Especially, Mt. Haku seen from Kibagata Park creates the prefecture’s representative beautiful scenery in harmony with surface of the Kibagata lagoon with abundant nature. The area around the lagoon is designated as a vistaed view preservation zone of the prefecture.

Kiriko Festival is a festival which is unique to Noto Peninsula (where Ishikawa Prefecture locates) and cannot be seen in any other area in Japan. In this festival, many people ebulliently walk around carrying a kiriko, a huge cuboid-shaped lantern attached to a large frame, along to musical accompaniment called hayashi. It is one of components of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems “Noto’s Satoyama and Satoumi (managed woodlands or mountains, and sea near human settlements),” which was designated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations for the first time in Japan and other developed countries.

Interesting fact

Price

Date	Mintage	VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
26 (2014)	30000	-	-	-	-	-	-

Values in the table are based on evaluations by sales realized on Internet platforms. They serve as an indication only for 500 Yen - Heisei (Ishikawa) 26 (2014) coin.