There are four kinds of paper money, namely 1000, 2000, 5000 and 10000 yen, and six kinds of coins, namely 1, 5, 10, 50, 100 and 500 yen.
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.
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Japanese yen history
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
19 14 War broke out and the gold standard stopped. (Taisho three years)
1923 9. 1 Great Kanto Earthquake, at that time 1 USD =2.63 yen.
1928, 1 USD =2.3 yen.
193 1 year, Britain abolished the gold standard, and Japan abolished it in 12+07.
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