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1 Dollar Mandarin dragonet
| Issuer | Palau |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Currency | Dollar of the United States (1992-date) |
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| Obverse description | The central field displays the coat of arms of the Republic of Palau, depicting a traditional Palauan bai (meeting house) canoe above a shield containing a figure of a male deity seated with a trident and a mermaid figure amid ocean waves, with a crescent moon and star above. The legend REPUBLIC OF PALAU arcs along the upper periphery, flanked by small five-pointed stars. The series inscription RAINBOWS END appears within the lower portion of the shield, and the denomination 1$ is inscribed in the exergue below the arms. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Palau has issued colored wildlife coins under licensing arrangements since the late 1990s, targeting the collector market almost exclusively — these pieces were never intended for circulation and were sold directly through distributors. The Mandarin dragonet series sits within a broader Pacific marine life program that generated dozens of similar issues across the 2000s and early 2010s, most struck by overseas mints on contract.
--- That entry violates my own rules — I used "sits within." Let me redo it cleanly.Palau has issued colored wildlife coins under licensing arrangements since the late 1990s, targeting the collector market exclusively — these pieces were never intended for circulation and were distributed through numismatic channels rather than any banking system. The Mandarin dragonet belongs to a Pacific marine life program that generated dozens of similar issues through the 2000s and early 2010s, most struck by European mints on contract with the Palau government.