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1 Dollar Fish and Coral - Palladium Essai
| Issuer | Palau |
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| Year | 1994 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Obverse description | A topless mermaid with long flowing hair and a floral wreath crown is depicted in the right-center field, her scaled tail emerging from stylized ocean waves at the lower field; she raises her right hand holding a large shell or sea urchin. To the left, a fully rigged tall sailing ship is depicted at sea with birds in flight above. The denomination '1 $' appears in the lower field beneath the central design. The legend 'REPUBLIC OF PALAU' arcs along the upper periphery, with the date '1994' descending along the right inner border, all within a beaded inner border. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIC OF PALAU 1994 1 $ |
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Palau's 1994 dollar series was among the first modern issues from the newly independent republic, which gained sovereignty from the United States compact arrangement only that same year. This palladium essai — a trial or pattern strike produced to test dies and metal behavior before committing to a full issue — was never released for circulation. Palladium itself was an unusual choice; by 1994 the metal had seen almost no use in numismatic issues outside Soviet-era Soviet Union platinum-adjacent programs.
Whether a circulation strike in palladium was ever seriously planned, or whether this was produced purely for collector and archival purposes, remains unclear from the mint records that have surfaced.