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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Baron Munchhausen
| Issuer | Samoa |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Value | 1 Tala |
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| Obverse description | Effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, rendered in the fourth definitive portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley, her initials 'IRB' incuse below the truncation. The Queen is depicted with a diadem and styled hair. The legend 'SAMOA' arcs along the upper periphery, with the Samoan coat of arms centered at the base flanked by the inscriptions '0.5g Au 585' to the left and '1 DOLLAR' to the right. The portrait is set against a deeply mirrored proof field within a raised border. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Part of a broader series of miniature gold issues produced for the Pacific collector market, this piece commemorates Karl Friedrich Hieronymus von Münchhausen, the 18th-century German baron whose name became synonymous with extravagant fabrication. The historical Münchhausen was a real Hanoverian officer who served in Russian campaigns against the Ottomans; the fictional exaggerations attributed to him were first published without his consent by Rudolf Erich Raspe in 1785.
Samoa's use of such themes reflects a deliberate licensing strategy common among small Pacific issuers working with European minting houses — Pobjoy Mint and B.H. Mayer's have both facilitated similar programs.