1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Fokker, colored

Tuvalu has no meaningful aeronautical history of its own, which is precisely why these themed collector issues work on their own terms — the coins are frankly about the subject, not the issuer. The Fokker series trades on the Dutch manufacturer's outsized role in early aviation, particularly the Fokker Triplane and D.VII, aircraft that defined and then closed the First World War's air war. Anthony Fokker himself smuggled twenty train cars of machinery and completed airframes into Germany after the Armistice to restart production in the Netherlands, an act of audacious self-preservation that kept the company alive into the commercial aviation age.