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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Powerful Owl
| Issuer | Tuvalu |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Value | 1 Dollar |
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| Reverse description | A dramatic close-up portrait of the Powerful Owl (Ninox strenua) dominates the field, rendered in full color with striking yellow-ringed eyes and a hooked steel-blue beak, its brown-and-white barred plumage depicted in meticulous detail. In the upper right quadrant, an uncolored engraved vignette shows a Powerful Owl in flight among bare tree branches. A stylized engraved wood-grain ledge in the lower field bears the inscription POWERFUL OWL in two lines. The upper left background is colorized in deep black, heightening the dramatic contrast of the composition. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Tuvalu's wildlife coin program, administered through the Perth Mint under licensing arrangements that have generated hundreds of issues since the 1990s, produces legal tender denominations that circulate nowhere — Tuvalu's actual economy runs on the Australian dollar. The Powerful Owl (Ninox strenua), Australia's largest owl by body mass, has a home range of up to 1,000 hectares per breeding pair, making it genuinely vulnerable to habitat fragmentation in southeastern Australian forests.
Mintage on these Perth-produced collector issues is typically capped at 5,000 pieces.