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| Issuer | Republic of Palau |
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| Year | 2013 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIC OF PALAU RAINBOW'S END 1$ |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Palau has issued commemorative gold minors prolifically since the 1990s, and this half-gram piece belongs to a long run of small-format collector issues produced for the international numismatic market rather than any domestic circulation need. The island nation's GDP makes gold coinage functionally absurd as currency, which is precisely the point — these exist as legal-tender vehicles for themed collector sets, almost always contracted through European minting intermediaries.
The KM#A650 reference places it within a dense cluster of Palauan commemoratives from this period, most struck at the Münze Österreich or comparable facilities.