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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II The Nautilus
| Issuer | Tuvalu |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Value | 1 Dollar |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Part of the Perth Mint's ongoing "Famous Fights of History" or themed wildlife bullion runs, this particular issue belongs to a series celebrating the nautilus — a cephalopod whose lineage stretches back over 500 million years, effectively unchanged. Tuvalu's use as an issuing authority is a licensing arrangement; the coins are designed, struck, and distributed entirely through Perth, with Tuvalu's nominal sovereignty providing the legal tender framework.
The nautilus series trades on genuine zoological interest — the shell's logarithmic spiral was famously cited by D'Arcy Thompson in his 1917 work On Growth and Form as a key example of mathematical form in nature.