1 Dollar Dolphin

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.