Palau has operated a prolific commemorative program since the 1990s, licensing its sovereign minting rights to European producers — primarily the Bavarian State Mint and various Austrian houses — to generate foreign currency revenue. The actual scientific hook here is sound: the Chicxulub impactor struck roughly 66 million years ago off the Yucatán Peninsula, releasing energy estimated at over a billion times the Hiroshima bomb and triggering the end-Cretaceous mass extinction that eliminated roughly three-quarters of Earth's species.
KM#984 is part of a longer Palauan series exploiting paleontology themes for the collector market. Mintages on these issues are typically capped low by contract, though exact figures are rarely disclosed by the licensing intermediaries.
Palau has operated a prolific commemorative program since the 1990s, licensing its sovereign minting rights to European producers — primarily the Bavarian State Mint and various Austrian houses — to generate foreign currency revenue. The actual scientific hook here is sound: the Chicxulub impactor struck roughly 66 million years ago off the Yucatán Peninsula, releasing energy estimated at over a billion times the Hiroshima bomb and triggering the end-Cretaceous mass extinction that eliminated roughly three-quarters of Earth's species.
KM#984 is part of a longer Palauan series exploiting paleontology themes for the collector market. Mintages on these issues are typically capped low by contract, though exact figures are rarely disclosed by the licensing intermediaries.