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1 Dollar Elephant Shrew
| Issuer | Republic of Palau |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Value | 1 Dollar (1 USD) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features the national coat of arms of Palau at center, depicting a shield charged with a traditional scene of a figure holding a trident, accompanied by seated figures, set within a wreath border. Above the shield, a traditional Palauan canoe with an outrigger is shown in the upper field, flanked by eight stars arranged in an arc around the periphery. The legend REPUBLIC OF PALAU arcs along the upper rim, and the denomination 1$ appears in the lower field below the coat of arms. The inscription RAINBOW'S END is inscribed across the lower portion of the shield. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a finely detailed, naturalistically rendered effigy of an elephant shrew (order Macroscelidea) in profile, depicted in a characteristic foraging posture with its distinctive elongated, trunk-like snout angled downward toward the ground. The animal's slender limbs, large rounded ear, and long tapering tail are rendered with careful engraving, conveying the delicate anatomy of this small African mammal. The curved legend THE LITTLE FIVE arcs along the upper rim, with the date 2006 inscribed below it in the upper field. The inscription ELEPHANT SHREW curves along the lower rim, completing the design. |
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Part of Palau's long-running wildlife series issued through the mid-2000s, this miniature gold piece was produced when sub-gram gold coinage was gaining traction among European collector markets hungry for low entry-point bullion-adjacent pieces. The elephant shrew — more closely related to elephants and aardvarks than to true shrews — was a deliberately obscure subject choice, even by the standards of a series that rarely reached for the obvious.