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15 Dollars - Elizabeth II Lucky waving cat
| Issuer | Tuvalu |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | Central design features a polychrome colour-printed Maneki-neko (lucky waving cat) rendered in white and orange-gold with black spots, its left paw raised in the traditional beckoning gesture. The cat wears a red collar and holds a koban oval gold coin bearing Chinese characters reading 千万両 (ten million ryo) in its right paw. The legend 1/10oz 9999 GOLD arcs along the upper periphery, and the denomination 15 DOLLARS is inscribed along the lower border, all lettering raised against a mirrored proof field. |
| Reverse script | Latin/Chinese |
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Tuvalu's bullion and collector gold output has long been contract-struck by the Perth Mint under licensing arrangements that give the island nation nominal issuing authority over coins it has no domestic capacity to produce. This piece belongs to the Chinese Lunar-themed series targeting the East and Southeast Asian collector market, where the Maneki-neko — the beckoning cat figure with its raised paw — carries deep commercial associations rooted in Edo-period Japanese folklore about a cat that lured a feudal lord away from a lightning strike.
Perth's .9999 fine fractional gold output from this period is consistently well-executed at the die stage.