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2 Dollars - Elizabeth II Qi Lin and Unicorn
| Issuer | Tuvalu |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse lettering | 麒麟 IJ UNICORN |
| Edge | Plain |
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Tuvalu's legal tender coinage has been issued under Australian licensing arrangements since independence in 1978, with the Perth Mint producing the vast majority of its collector issues. This piece belongs to a series pairing the Scottish unicorn — one of the two heraldic supporters of the British royal arms — with the qilin, the chimeric creature from Chinese cosmological tradition sometimes rendered in Western sources as a unicorn cognate, though the two share no genuine mythological lineage.
The .9999 fineness places it among Perth's higher-purity issues, a specification the mint adopted aggressively for bullion and semi-numismatic products from the 2010s onward to compete directly with the Royal Canadian Mint's fine silver output.