770-gram gold coins for 770-year-old festival

770-gram gold coins for 770-year-old festival

FUKUOKA, Japan - A woman holds a large oval coin made of about 770 grams of pure gold in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on June 21, 2011. Tanaka Kikinzoku Jewelry K.K. unveiled the coins that day, a day before putting them on the market for 7.70 million yen each to mark the presumed 770th anniversary of the Hakata Gion Yamakasa summer festival in Fukuoka.

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  • ILEA001160186
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  • 2011/6/21 00:00:00
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  • Kyodo / Kyodo News Images
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  • 2011 Kyodo News
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