Samoa has issued commemorative silver in large formats since the early 2000s, largely through arrangements with the Pobjoy Mint and similar private minting houses that source legal tender authority from Pacific island nations with minimal domestic coin demand. These issues circulate exclusively among collectors and never approach the issuing territory in any practical sense.
The United States Capitol building was completed in its current domed form in 1868, the cast-iron dome having been constructed through the Civil War — Lincoln insisted work continue specifically as a signal that the Union would survive.
Samoa has issued commemorative silver in large formats since the early 2000s, largely through arrangements with the Pobjoy Mint and similar private minting houses that source legal tender authority from Pacific island nations with minimal domestic coin demand. These issues circulate exclusively among collectors and never approach the issuing territory in any practical sense.
The United States Capitol building was completed in its current domed form in 1868, the cast-iron dome having been constructed through the Civil War — Lincoln insisted work continue specifically as a signal that the Union would survive.