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1 Dollar Yellow Damsel
| Issuer | Palau |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Weight | 26.8 g |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | ENDANGERED WILDLIFE 2008 |
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Palau's dollar series featuring marine life began in the 1990s as a deliberate revenue mechanism — the coins are legal tender but were never intended for circulation, produced entirely for the collector market at a time when small Pacific island nations were increasingly licensing their sovereign minting rights to European producers, typically the Bavarian State Mint or Berne-based houses.
The Yellow Damselfish issues from this era were struck with color-printing technology applied directly to the coin face, a technique that was still generating collector novelty in 2008 before the market became saturated with similar products from Niue, Tuvalu, and the Cook Islands.