28 (2016) Japan 500 Yen Y#254 Heisei Fukushima Nice Prooflike BU Bargain # WB 19

Description

28 (2016) Japan 500 Yen Y#254 Heisei Fukushima Nice Prooflike BU Bargain
Specifications
Composition
Bi Metallic
Years
2016
Denomination
500 Yen
Weight
7.1 Grams
Diameter
26.5 mm
Reference
Y # 254
Shape
Round
Design
Commemorative issue
60th anniversary of Local Autonomy Law
Obverse
Soma Nomaoi Festival's
Kacchu Keiba riders
Lettering:
日　本　国
FUKUSHIMA
福島県
五　百　円
Translation:
State of Japan
Fukushima
500 yen
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 28 年
Translation:
Local autonomy
Year 28 of Heisei
Edge
Slanted reeding with two different pitches
Comments
The Soma Nomaoi Festival is held in the cities of Soma and Minamisoma (including the former Odaka Town), this is one of Fukushima Prefecture’s best-known festivals. During the festival, more than 500 people mounted on horses in traditional Japanese samurai armor, with swords at their side and war flagstaffs streaming from their backs, gallop at full speed, recreating a splendid and heroic spectacle from Japan’s Warring States period.
Kacchu Keiba (Horse racing in armor) were a group of ten young people dressed as armored Samurai warriors, wearing traditional white headbands instead of warrior helmets, compete in a 1,000-meter race.
notes
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