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1 Dollar Dolphin
| Issuer | Republic of Palau |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Currency | Dollar of the United States (1992-date) |
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| Reverse description | The central field features a large full-color photographic-style depiction of a bottlenose dolphin emerging head-first from vibrant blue ocean waters, rendered with vivid polychrome enamel coloring that conveys the rippling surface of the sea. The dolphin is shown in a near-frontal orientation, its rostrum and melon clearly defined against the bright aquamarine background. The curved legend MARINE LIFE PROTECTION arcs along the upper periphery in raised Latin lettering within a beaded border. The color insert occupies nearly the full inner field, framed by a narrow milled border. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Palau began issuing themed collector dollars in the mid-1990s under licensing arrangements that effectively outsourced the entire program to foreign minting houses — most pieces in this series were struck in China or Eastern Europe and sold primarily through television shopping channels and mail-order catalogs rather than through any domestic circulation. KM#72 is part of that extended Marine Life Protection series, a run that stretched across nearly two decades and spawned dozens of near-identical formats.