1 Dollar Lucky Buck

Palau has issued novelty silver dollars under various "lucky" themes since the early 2000s, exploiting the country's Compact of Free Association with the United States, which permits Palau to issue legal tender without a domestic monetary system of its own. The Lucky Buck series targets the gift and collectibles market almost exclusively — these pieces do not circulate and are not intended to.

KM#974 is one of several dozen similar issues cataloged within a few years of each other, distinguished mainly by embedded or applied decorative elements added post-striking.