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500-yen Coin of Laodongquan
The
Laodongquan (literally: 'Labor Notes'; abbreviated
UPY; symbol:
¥・円・元・원) is the official currency of People's Republics Union and one of the world's major reserve currencies. The yen is the basic unit of the Laodongquan, but is also used to refer to the Union currency generally, especially in international contexts where "Union yen" is widely used to refer to the Laodongquan.
Yen derives from the Japanese word 圓 (えん,
en, lit. "round"), which borrows its phonetic reading from Chinese yuan similar to Korean won. During period of Dadong Empire, Imperial Yen was commonly used and the word "Yen" has been widely absorbed into different East Asian languages.
The subunit of Laodongquan is called "Sen" (from Japanese word 銭)。 Coins were followed Imperial standard introduced in 1870. There were silver 5-, 10-, 20-, 50- sen, and 100-, 200-, 500- yen. The coins of Laodongquan share the front with the same design: year of issue, value of coin and name of People's Republics Union written in Chinese characters(人民共和国联盟).
The back of coins share some similar elements: Anglo-French name of Union(Union des Républiques de Peuple). And the top word and center image will change its scripts according to the country of issue, for example, there will be Korean "인민 공화국 연합" and map of Korean Peninsula in a 500-yen coin issued by Korea.