新500円硬貨の打ち初め式“2色構造”で偽造防止強化(2021年6月21日)

Strengthen anti-counterfeiting with new 500 yen coin "two-color structure" (2021/06/21)

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500円硬貨のデザインの変更は2000年以来2回目で、3代目となります。　
This is the second time the design of the 500 yen coin has been changed since 2000, and it is the third generation.
図柄は今のものとほぼ同じですが、新たな材料を加えることで2色構造を初めて取り入れ、縁のギザギザの一部を異なる形状にするなど、偽造防止の効果を高めています。
The design is almost the same as it is now, but with the addition of new materials, it will for the first time have a two-color construction and a serrated edge section made into a different shape to increase its anti-counterfeiting effect.
日銀から民間の金融機関を通して市中に出回るのは11月ごろで、今年度は約2億枚の発行を予定しています。　
The new 500 yen coin will be marketed by the Bank of Japan through private financial institutions around November and is expected to issue about 200 million coins this year.
現在、500円硬貨は50億枚ほど流通していて、大半が新しい硬貨に替わるのには、相当な時間がかかるとみられています。
Currently, there are about 5 billion 500 yen coins in circulation, and it is expected to take a considerable amount of time for most of them to be replaced by new coins.

500円硬貨のデザインの変更は2000年以来2回目で、3代目となります。　

変更

Change, modification, alteration, revision, amendment

円

Yen, japanese monetary unit; circle

以来

Since, henceforth

回

Counter for occurrences; counter for games, rounds, etc., counter for innings (baseball); islam; hui (people)

硬貨

Coin; hard currency

年

Year; many years; age; past one''s prime, old age

目

Eye, eyeball; eyesight, sight, vision; look, stare, glance; an experience; viewpoint; stitch, texture, weave; ordinal number suffix; somewhat, -ish

デザイン

Design
図柄は今のものとほぼ同じですが、新たな材料を加えることで2色構造を初めて取り入れ、縁のギザギザの一部を異なる形状にするなど、偽造防止の効果を高めています。

縁

Rim, brim, edge, brink

新た

New, fresh, novel

加える

To add, to add up, to sum up, to append, to annex; to increase, to gather (e.g. speed), to pick up; to include, to count in, to let join; to inflict (damage), to deal, to give

効果

Effect, effectiveness, efficacy, result; effects (e.g. sound effects, visual effects, special effects)

異なる

To differ, to vary, to disagree

材料

Ingredients, material

構造

Structure, construction

防止

Prevention, check

一部

One part, one portion, one section, some; one copy (e.g. of a document)

偽造

Forgery, falsification, fabrication, counterfeiting

今

The current ..., this; today''s ..

色

Colour, color; complexion; appearance, look; love, lust, sensuality, love affair, lover; kind, type, variety

同じ

Same, identical, equal, uniform, equivalent, similar, common (origin), changeless, alike; (usu. part of a ''nara'' conditional) anyway, anyhow, in either case

初めて

For the first time; only after ... is it ..., only when ... do you ..

取り入れ

Taking in, harvesting

形状

Shape, form

図柄

design, pattern
日銀から民間の金融機関を通して市中に出回るのは11月ごろで、今年度は約2億枚の発行を予定しています。　

億

10^8, 100,000,000, hundred million

予定

Plans, arrangement, schedule, program, programme, expectation, estimate

発行

Issue (publications), publishing; raising an event (software)

約

Approximately, about; promise; shortening, reduction, simplification; contraction (in phonetics)

機関

Engine; agency, organisation, organization, institution, organ, body; system, facility, facilities

金融

Financing, credit transacting, loaning of money, circulation of money

月

Monday

民間

Private, civilian, civil, popular, folk, unofficial

を通して

Through, throughout, through (the good offices of), by way of

枚

Counter for flat objects (e.g. sheets of paper)

日銀

Bank of japan, boj, boj

今年度

This year, this fiscal year, this school year

市中

in the city
現在、500円硬貨は50億枚ほど流通していて、大半が新しい硬貨に替わるのには、相当な時間がかかるとみられています。

億

10^8, 100,000,000, hundred million

円

Yen, japanese monetary unit; circle

現在

Now, current, present, present time, as of

硬貨

Coin; hard currency

相当

Befitting, becoming, worthy of, proportionate, in keeping with, suitable; considerable, substantial; to be worthy of, to be proportionate to; to correspond to (in meaning, function, etc.), to be equivalent; extremely, considerably

大半

Majority, mostly, generally

新しい

New, novel, fresh, recent, latest, up-to-date, modern

時間

Time; hours

枚

Counter for flat objects (e.g. sheets of paper)

流通

Circulation of money or goods, flow of water or air, distribution; negotiable (e.g. shares)

替わる

to succeed, to relieve, to replace; to take the place of, to substitute for, to take over for, to represent; to be exchanged, to change (places with), to switch