There are four kinds of banknotes 1000, 2000, 5000 and 10000 yen, and six denominations of coins 1, 5, 10, 50, 100 and 500 yen.
More specifically, the issuer of yen banknotes is the Bank of Japan ("Bank of Japan-Bank Notes of Japan") and the issuer of yen coins is the Japanese government ("Japan"). At the same time, unlike RMB, Japanese yen coins do not have unlimited legal compensation capacity, so in principle, the legal upper limit of coins with the same face value is 20 (that is, the maximum payment capacity of coins is1_× 20+5 _× 20+10 _× 20+50 _× 20+65438+).
20 19 On April 9, Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso officially announced that new banknotes of 1000 yen, 5,000 yen and 1000 yen will be introduced in the first half of 2024, and the portraits of Shibusawa Eiichi, Miko Tsuda and Kitasato Shibasaburo will be used on the front respectively. At that time, the Meiji government set the value of 1 yen as 1500mg of pure gold, and set up a secondary monetary unit, which was equivalent to 0.0 1 yen. At present, the yen exchange rate is 1 USD 1 17. 1 yen (20 16- 12-24).
1874, Japan went to the silver standard (1 yen equals 4 16 pieces of silver with 90% purity, which is very close to the silver content of western silver dollars in the same period).
1897 In the 30th year of Meiji, Japan's second gold standard stipulated that 1 yen was equal to 750 mg of gold (0.75g) and 1 USD was equal to 2.005 yen, which was maintained until 19 17. 20 years of stability. 100 yen = $49.875
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