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10 Dollars Me 262A-1a Schwalbe
| Issuer | Republic of the Marshall Islands |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Composition | Brass |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a finely detailed low-relief depiction of the Messerschmitt Me 262A-1a Schwalbe, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, shown in dramatic three-quarter perspective in the foreground as it banks over a landscape below. A second Allied bomber aircraft is visible in the upper background field, conveying an aerial combat scene. The legend ME 262A-1a SCHWALBE arcs across the upper portion of the field in two lines, and the denomination 10 DOLLARS appears in two lines at the lower right of the field. |
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| Mint | R Roger Williams Mint, Attleboro, Massachusetts, United States (?-2006) |
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The Me 262, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter, entered Luftwaffe service in 1944 after Hitler's insistence on configuring early production models as bombers delayed deployment by critical months — a decision that almost certainly cost Germany its only realistic chance of air superiority in the final war years. The A-1a designation denotes the pure interceptor variant, armed with four 30mm MK 108 cannons.
The Marshall Islands issued commemorative brass dollars throughout the 1990s at a pace that flooded the novelty market, and most examples remain in essentially uncirculated condition simply because they never functioned as currency.