Japan Mint The Birth of Astro Boy 2003 Proof Coin Set, with Medal, in Case
Japan Mint The Birth of Astro Boy 2003 Proof Coin Set, with Medal, in Case
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For the coin or Tezuka collector.
Best for: Astro Boy and Tezuka collections
Condition notes
Mint. Unused and complete: official case, certificate, hallmark card, sleeve and box. Opened for these photographs; coins remain under the original window.
Assessed from photographs and descriptionReport dated 15 November 2026
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The Japan Mint’s official proof set for the year in which Astro Boy is born, in the story: 7 April 2003. Issued as “The Birth of Astro Boy” 2003 Proof Coin Set, it was the Mint’s first commemorative issue after it became an Independent Administrative Institution on 1 April 2003, a fact recorded on the certificate that accompanies the set. Ninety thousand sets were struck. The six circulating denominations for Heisei 15, from one yen to five hundred yen, are presented in proof, with frosted designs on mirror fields, around a colour medal of Astro Boy in silver, 35 mm and 20 g.
The coins sit in a printed card within a black-framed window, itself housed in the official blue case. On the front of the card the medal shows Astro Boy in flight, in silver relief, among the principal figures of the Tezuka story; the heading reads PROOF COIN SET. Turned over, the medal shows a colour portrait of the boy against a gold ring lettered ASTRO BOY 2003, and the coin reverses are set on a view of the city, headed JAPAN MINT. A bilingual certificate and a table of precious-metal marks are fitted under the ribbon of the case. The outer sleeve, printed The Birth of “ASTRO BOY” 2003 Proof Coin Set, Japan Mint, is present, together with the illustrated box dated April 7, 2003.
Condition is Mint. The set appears unused and complete: case, certificate, hallmark card, sleeve and box. It has been opened so that the coins, the medal and the papers could be recorded. The coins remain under the original window; no attempt has been made here to take them out. Fine signs of handling, if any, are confined to the outer packaging.
Osamu Tezuka first drew the boy robot in 1952 and brought him to television in 1963. In the original story he is switched on for the first time on 7 April 2003, and Japan marked that date as a genuine birthday, with a new series, exhibitions and licensed work. This set is the Mint’s own contribution to that year: a circulating proof set of the coinage then in use, gathered around a colour medal of the character, in the official case.
Packed for dispatch at 30 × 22 × 8 cm, 1.2 kg.
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