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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II The Flying Dutchman
| Issuer | Tuvalu |
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| Year | 2013 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing diademed and draped effigy of Queen Elizabeth II after the portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley, whose initials IRB appear below the truncation. The legend QUEEN ELIZABETH II arcs along the upper periphery, while the lower field bears the inscriptions 1 OZ 999 SILVER, the date 2013, TUVALU, and the denomination 1 DOLLAR arranged around the portrait. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Tuvalu has issued an enormous volume of silver dollar programs through the Perth Mint under licensing arrangements that have little connection to the island nation's own monetary history. This piece belongs to that category — a bullion-adjacent collectible whose issuer is essentially nominal, with Perth doing the actual work of design, striking, and distribution.
The Flying Dutchman legend, originating in Dutch maritime folklore and likely hardened into its modern form during the height of VOC-era Cape of Good Hope passages, was a story sailors told about a ghost ship doomed to sail forever after its captain swore a blasphemous oath in a storm off the Cape.