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10 Dollars Palace of Versailles
| Issuer | Republic of Palau |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#469 |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a vivid color-printed perspective view of the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, depicting the famous gallery in full polychrome detail. A long series of arched colonnades with richly marbled columns recedes toward a doorway in the background, with the ornate painted ceiling rendered in warm ochre and terracotta tones above. In the foreground of the highly polished parquet floor rests a gilded Sun King medallion — the solar emblem of Louis XIV — applied in gold color and standing in sculptural relief as the central compositional focus. The legend VERSAILLES HALL OF MIRRORS is inscribed along the lower edge, integrated into the patterned floor of the composition. |
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| Reverse lettering | VERSAILLES HALL OF MIRRORS |
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Palau has issued commemorative silver under its 1992 Marine Protection Act authority, leveraging a licensing arrangement that allows foreign minting houses — primarily the Austrian Mint in Vienna — to produce collector pieces bearing Palauan legal tender status. This particular issue is part of a broader "Sacred Places" series that ran through the early 2010s, targeting the European collector market almost exclusively.
Versailles itself was stripped of most furnishings during the Revolution, its contents auctioned off in sales that ran for three years beginning in 1793.