Japan’s 100-yen coin gets a special Karate design commemorating the upcoming Tokyo Olympics

Japan’s 100-yen coin gets a special Karate design commemorating the upcoming Tokyo Olympics

100-yen coin with a design showing a Karate bout minted to commemorate the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics


July 24, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo

The Ministry of Finance (MoF) began putting 100-yen coins with a Karate design into circulation July 24.

The new coin was minted to commemorate the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, and is joined by six other commemorative designs featuring events such as weightlifting and surfing, and can be exchanged at financial institutions in Okinawa.

For the first day, people are limited to exchanging only two of each type of commemorative coin.

Initially, 3,948,000 coins of each design are being issued throughout Japan.

The front side of the Karate coin has an engraving of a bout, and the back of the coin has the Olympic emblem, which all six designs share.

In Okinawa, the coins can be exchanged at Bank of The Ryukyus, The Bank of Okinawa, The Okinawa Kaiho Bank, Koza Shinkin Bank, Japan Post Bank, and Japan Agricultural Cooperatives Okinawa.

For more details, visit the MoF homepage at https://www.mof.go.jp/

(English translation by T&CT and Sam Grieb)

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