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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Lamborghini Countach
| Issuer | Tuvalu |
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| Year | 2006 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing crowned effigy of Queen Elizabeth II after the portrait by Raphael David Maklouf, depicting the Queen wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara with a pearl drop earring and pearl necklace. The legend QUEEN ELIZABETH II arcs along the upper periphery, while the denomination 1 DOLLAR and the issuer TUVALU appear along the lower left and lower fields respectively, with the date 2006 inscribed vertically along the right periphery. The engraver's initials RDM appear discreetly below the portrait truncation. The deeply mirrored proof fields contrast with the finely frosted relief of the effigy. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Tuvalu's licensing agreements with automotive and entertainment brands produced a long run of legal-tender commemoratives in the 2000s — coins that circulated nowhere and were sold directly to collectors at multiples of face value. The Lamborghini Countach, designed by Marcello Gandini at Bertone and produced from 1974 to 1990, was already a fixture of poster culture by the time this coin was struck, which is precisely the point. The target buyer was a collector with nostalgia, not a numismatist with a catalog.
KM#170 is a one-ounce silver issue from the Perth Mint under contract.