The Finance Ministry of Japan has revealed the designs of the final set of Olympic coins, to be released later this year.
The twelve new coins, which bring the total of Japan’s Olympic and Paralympic Games coins to 37, include a 10,000-yen premium-grade gold coin (showing Torchbearers and the National Stadium), two 1,000-yen premium-grade silver coins (depicting boxing and wrestling), two 500-yen bi-colour clad coins (Thunder God and Wind God), and seven types of 100-yen clad coins (football, tennis, volleyball, mascot Miraitowa, cycling, wheelchair rugby, and mascot Someity).
The reverse design of the 100-yen coins features the official emblem of Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, the reverse of the 500-yen coins also shows sport pictograms (modern pentathlon, golf, basketball, equestrian, handball, rowing, hockey, rugby, sailing, shooting, taekwondo, and triathlon) around the…
