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10 Dollars Vikings
| Issuer | Palau |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Weight | 62.2 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse portrays a Viking ship burial ceremony rendered in exceptional high relief with an antiqued silver finish. A longship, its striped sail colored in red and white, is engulfed in flames upon a body of water, with shields lining the hull and a carved dragon prow at the bow. On the right bank, a group of armored Viking warriors stands upon a wooden jetty, observing the funerary rite against a dramatic backdrop of mountains and pine forests. In the lower foreground, a Viking helmet rests prominently in the field, adding a poignant symbolic element to the composition. The scene is depicted without inscriptions, allowing the intricate sculptural detail to dominate the design. |
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Palau has issued commemorative silver rounds under its coinage authority since the 1990s, leveraging a 1994 agreement that allows the island nation — population under 20,000 — to produce legal tender coins with no expectation of domestic circulation. The Vikings series fits squarely into that model: collector product issued under Pacific sovereignty, sold directly into the European and North American bullion markets.
KM#903 is the catalog reference assigned by Krause, though secondary market listings frequently mislabel pieces within this series due to the number of thematically similar Palauan issues released in close succession around the same period.