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2 Dollars Camera Obscura
| Issuer | Palau |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features the national coat of arms of the Republic of Palau positioned in the upper central field, rendered in high relief with antiqued finish. Below the arms, a small circular aperture is pierced through the planchet, functioning as a pinhole lens evocative of the camera obscura concept. The denomination '2$' appears in the lower central field, with the curved legend 'REPUBLIC OF PALAU' along the lower rim. The border is decorated with a stylised geometric faceted pattern radiating from the rim inward, referencing the iris diaphragm of a camera lens. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Palau has built one of the more aggressive novelty bullion programs in the Pacific, and this piece falls squarely within it — Camera Obscura is part of a broader series celebrating optical instruments and the history of image-making. The camera obscura itself predates photography by centuries, documented in use by artists including Vermeer and Canaletto as a compositional aid, though its optical principles were described as early as the 10th century by Ibn al-Haytham in his Book of Optics.