Depicts the Phoenix Hall of Byōdō-in with the kanji for "Japan" and "Ten Yen".

Byōdō-in is a Buddhist temple in the city of Uji in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. It is jointly a temple of the Jōdo-shū (Pure Land) and Tendai-shū sects. This temple was originally built in 998 in the Heian period as a rural villa of high ranking courtier Minamoto no Shigenobu, Minister of the Left. The main building in Byōdō-in, the Phoenix Hall consists of a central hall, flanked by twin wing corridors on both sides of the central hall, and a tail corridor. The central hall houses an image of Amida Buddha. The roof of the hall displays statues of the Chinese phoenix, called hōō in Japanese. The Phoenix Hall, completed in 1053, is the exemplar of Fujiwara Amida halls.

Kanji are the adopted logographic Chinese characters that are used in the modern Japanese writing system along with hiragana and katakana.

Depicts value and date within wreath.

The date begins with the symbols for the era name Heisei (平成), followed by the era year, and ends with the symbol for year (年).

Y# 97.1 gives the regnal year as 'first' instead of 'one'. From the second year the regnal year is given as a numeral (2,3,4,...) in Japanese numerals, hence catalog nr. Y# 97.2