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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Victory Day
| Issuer | Tuvalu |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Technique | Milled, Colored |
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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 incuse below the truncation. The surrounding legend reads QUEEN ELIZABETH II along the upper periphery, with 1 DOLLAR TUVALU and the date 2012 arranged along the lower periphery. The portrait is rendered in high relief against a deeply mirrored proof field. |
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| Mintage | 2012 P - Proof - 3,000 |
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Victory in the Pacific Day holds particular weight for Tuvalu — the Ellice Islands, as they were then known, sat directly within the Japanese imperial advance across the central Pacific, and the archipelago's proximity to key Allied airstrips made it strategically significant during the Guadalcanal campaign. American forces established a base on Funafuti in 1943, and Japanese air raids on the atoll killed civilians alongside military personnel.
Struck at the Perth Mint under the standard Australian territorial arrangement that has governed Tuvaluan commemorative coinage since 1976.