1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Franz Liszt

Tuvalu's commemorative dollar program has long served as a vehicle for the Perth Mint to issue themed collector pieces under Australian licensing arrangements — Franz Liszt appearing here in the year marking the bicentennial of his birth in 1811. Liszt remains one of the few composers whose concert tours generated something resembling modern celebrity mania; his performances in the 1840s caused crowd hysteria documented by contemporaries as "Lisztomania," a term coined by Heinrich Heine.

The connection to Tuvalu is purely nominal — a sovereign name on a bullion-weight silver piece destined for the collector market, never the South Pacific.