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1 Dollar Bottle-Nose Dolphin, Essai
| Issuer | Government of Palau |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Currency | Dollar of the United States (1992-date) |
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| Obverse description | Two barefoot mermaids, each wearing a floral wreath and holding a trident, are depicted seated facing one another in the central field, their scaled tails converging at the base. The figures are rendered in high relief against a smooth field. The curved legend REPUBLIC OF PALAU arcs along the upper periphery, flanked by a beaded border, with the date 1998 continuing along the upper right. The denomination 1$ appears at the lower right of center, preceded by the word ESSAI at the lower left, identifying this piece as a pattern or trial strike. |
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| Reverse lettering | MARINE LIFE PROTECTION |
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Palau's 1994 Marine Life Protection series launched one of the Pacific's earliest conservation-themed coinage programs, and this essai — a trial strike submitted for design or production approval — predates the circulating issue by testing die alignment and metal flow before full authorization. Essais of this type were typically produced in minimal quantities, often fewer than a dozen examples, and were not released through normal distribution channels.
The copper-nickel composition here distinguishes it from the silver collector strikes that dominated Palau's marine series.