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100 Dollars - Elizabeth II Galaxy Express 999
| Issuer | Tuvalu |
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| Year | 2007 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Colorfully enameled central composition depicting characters and iconography from the Japanese anime series Galaxy Express 999, created by Leiji Matsumoto. The foreground features the young female character Maetel wearing a black fur-trimmed coat and hat, with the mysterious masked conductor beside her to the left; a stylized steam locomotive renders the eponymous Galaxy Express train in the lower portion of the field. A globe rendered in blue and green hues occupies the centre background. The creator's facsimile signature appears in the mid-field. The legend GALAXY EXPRESS arcs across the upper field, with 999 at the right, the copyright mark and initials M·T at the lower left, and the denomination $100 inscribed on an ornamental cartouche at the base. |
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Galaxy Express 999 is a manga and anime franchise created by Leiji Matsumoto, first serialized in 1977, in which a boy travels the galaxy aboard a steam locomotive that runs on rails through space. This coin was issued under Tuvalu's foreign currency licensing program, which routinely enlisted Perth Mint to produce collector gold for markets with no organic connection to the subject matter — a common arrangement throughout the 2000s that generated revenue for the issuing territory while targeting Japanese pop-culture collectors directly.