Japanese Currency
Bill denominations
Japanese paper money comes in 1, 5 and 10 thousand yen bills. There is also a 5 hundred yen bill, but is no longer being produced and has been replaced with a 500 yen coin.
Unique features
Each bill is sized differently. The
thousand yen being the shortest, the 5 thousand yen bill is approximately 1 cm longer and
the 10 thousand yen bill is 1 cm longer than the 5 thousand.
Each bill also has Braille writing in the corner for the seeing impaired.
Each bill has watermarks in order to prevent counterfeiting.
Thousand yen bill
5 thousand yen bill
10 thousand yen bill.
This is the largest bill in public circulation.
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| 500 yen coin | 100 yen coin | 50 yen coin |
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| 10 yen coin | 5 yen coin | 1 yen coin |
Good luck
The 5 yen coin in Japanese is pronounced "go-en". This also coincidentally means "good luck". For this reason the 5 yen coin is thought to be good luck.
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