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1/2 Dollar Harry Potter - Hogwarts Express
| Issuer | Samoa |
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| Year | 2020 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, after the portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley, occupying the central field against a mirror-polished black background. The engraver's initials IRB appear beneath the truncation of the neck. The Samoa coat of arms is depicted at the bottom center of the field. The legend SAMOA arcs along the upper rim, while the denomination HALF DOLLAR is inscribed to the lower right of the effigy. |
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| Reverse lettering | 2020 Harry Potter HOGWARTS EXPRESS 5972 HOGWARTS EXPRESS TM & © WBEI (s19) |
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Samoa has served as a convenient issuing authority for fantasy-themed numismatic products since the 1990s, its licensing arrangements allowing foreign minting firms — primarily European — to produce collectibles with no meaningful circulation intent. This piece is a bullion-format novelty struck under a Warner Bros. license, part of a broader series that flooded the collector market around the franchise's twentieth anniversary.
Silver-plated copper-nickel at this weight occupies an awkward commercial space: priced above base metal, worth less than silver.