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10 Dollars P-51 Mustang
| Issuer | Republic of the Marshall Islands |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Composition | Brass |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a dynamic aviation scene depicting two North American P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft in flight amid billowing cumulus clouds. The primary aircraft is rendered in bold relief occupying the central and lower field, shown in a slight banking attitude with detailed surface paneling, cockpit canopy, propeller, and wing markings clearly delineated. A second P-51 Mustang is depicted in the upper left background in shallower relief, conveying a sense of aerial depth and formation flying. The legend P-51 MUSTANG arcs prominently along the upper periphery in bold raised lettering. The denomination 10 TEN DOLLARS is inscribed in the lower left field, with the Sunshine Minting mint mark S visible at the lower right. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Republic of the Marshall Islands began issuing legal tender commemorative coins in the late 1980s primarily as a revenue mechanism — the coins were never intended for circulation and were marketed directly to collectors through mail-order campaigns. This P-51 Mustang issue appeared during a wave of World War II aviation commemoratives the RMI released around the 50th anniversaries of the war's major events.
The Mustang's long-range escort capability, significantly extended by drop tanks, is what the coin's existence actually hinges on: without the 8th Air Force's losses over Germany before the P-51 arrived in theater in late 1943, the political pressure to commemorate it would have looked very different.