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1 Dollar Butterfly
| Issuer | Palau |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Shape | Butterfly |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIC OF PALAU 1 DOLLAR |
| Reverse description | The reverse is struck in the full outline of a butterfly, with the flan itself shaped to replicate the insect's spread wings. Detailed wing venation is rendered in raised lines across both the upper and lower wing pairs, with a central body element dividing the composition. The naturalistic design fills the entire surface of the butterfly-shaped planchet, with no additional legend or inscription present in the field. |
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Palau has issued small-format gold pieces like this under licensing arrangements that allow the island nation's name to appear on coins it neither designs nor distributes domestically. The actual striking was almost certainly contracted to a European mint — most likely B.H. Mayer's Kunstprägeanstalt in Germany, which handled the bulk of Palau's novelty bullion program during this period.