Catalog
| Issuer | Samoa |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Currency | Tala (1967-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | SAMOA 2023 STAR TREK™ HALF DOLLAR FA'AVAE I LE ATUA SAMOA |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Additional information |
Samoa's numismatic licensing program has produced hundreds of pop-culture issues over the past decade, nearly all manufactured in central Europe — almost certainly the Pressburg Mint in Slovakia or a comparable facility — and distributed through wholesale novelty channels rather than through any meaningful collector market. Gold-plated iron is not a recognized precious-metal denomination by any monetary authority; the face value is nominal fiction.
KM#744 places this squarely in a sequence where catalog numbers have outpaced any coherent issuing rationale.