Palau's legal tender coinage has long been produced entirely for the collector market — the islands use the US dollar in daily commerce and have no domestic mint. This miniature gold piece is part of a broader animal-themed series issued under licensing arrangements common to small Pacific sovereign states, where numismatic revenue supplements limited government income.
At 0.5 grams, the planchet contains just under a sixty-second of a troy ounce of metal.
Palau's legal tender coinage has long been produced entirely for the collector market — the islands use the US dollar in daily commerce and have no domestic mint. This miniature gold piece is part of a broader animal-themed series issued under licensing arrangements common to small Pacific sovereign states, where numismatic revenue supplements limited government income.
At 0.5 grams, the planchet contains just under a sixty-second of a troy ounce of metal.