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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II IJN Yamato

Issuer Tuvalu
Year 2007
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Composition Silver (.999)
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Obverse script Latin
Obverse lettering QUEEN ELIZABETH II 1 DOLLAR TUVALU 2007
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The Yamato was sunk on April 7, 1945, during Operation Ten-Go — a suicide mission with fuel enough for a one-way trip to Okinawa. She took roughly 2,498 men down with her. Tuvalu's extended series of military vessel commemoratives, issued through the Perth Mint under licensing arrangements common to many Pacific island nations with negligible defense budgets, used the Yamato repeatedly as a marquee subject given the ship's enduring cultural weight in Japan — the primary collector market these coins were designed to reach.

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