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10 Dollars Hansel and Gretel
| Issuer | Palau |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Technique | Milled, Colored |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a richly colored and highly detailed scene from the Brothers Grimm fairy tale rendered in a dark, horror-inspired artistic style. In the foreground, the busts of Gretel (left) and Hansel (right), both dressed in green, gaze upward, each holding a candy — a red lollipop and a red-and-white striped candy cane respectively — depicted with selective color application. Looming above them in a swirling, spectral form is the menacing wicked witch, her face rendered with glowing red eyes and a sinister grin, her flowing white hair engulfing the upper field. To the right background, a snow-covered gingerbread house with red candy-dot decorations is visible against a wintry landscape. The series title FEAR TALES curves along the upper left arc, with the date 2021 and the designer's monogram CP inscribed in the lower right field. |
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| Reverse lettering | FEAR TALES 2021 CP |
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Palau has operated as one of the more prolific issuers of themed collector silver since the 1990s, licensing its minting authority to European producers — primarily the Münze Österreich and various private mints — for series that have no connection to Palauan economic life whatsoever. This piece belongs to that collector-market pipeline rather than to any circulating monetary system.
The Grimm Brothers published "Hänsel und Gretel" in the first edition of Kinder- und Hausmärchen in 1812, drawing on oral traditions that scholars believe carried strong resonance with historical fears of famine and child abandonment in medieval Central Europe.