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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II USS Missouri
| Issuer | Tuvalu |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Value | 1 Dollar |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A detailed, high-relief depiction of the Iowa-class battleship USS Missouri underway at sea, rendered with applied color showing a blue sky with clouds and blue ocean waters. The bow-on perspective dominates the central field, emphasizing the ship's massive superstructure and main gun turrets. In the lower exergue, an oval cartouche contains a side-profile silhouette of the vessel, flanked by the ship's length inscription 270.4 m and the legend USS MISSOURI. The initials JG, identifying the engraver, appear to the lower right of the cartouche. |
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The USS Missouri (BB-63) is best known as the site of Japan's formal surrender on September 2, 1945, making her deck the precise geographic point where World War II ended in the Pacific. She was subsequently decommissioned, recommissioned for Korea and again for the 1980s Reagan-era naval buildup, and finally retired in 1992. Tuvalu's numismatic program, administered through the Perth Mint, has issued dozens of commemorative dollars using this format to generate government revenue — the island nation's land area barely exceeds 26 square kilometers.