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20 Cents - Elizabeth II Dsungaripterus weii
| Issuer | Samoa |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | At centre, the fourth-generation effigy of Queen Elizabeth II by Ian Rank-Broadley faces right, enclosed within a raised circular border. The Samoa coat of arms appears in the lower field beneath the portrait. Surrounding the central circle, a decorative band displays silhouettes of all dinosaur subjects featured in the series, with the silhouette corresponding to this particular coin — Dsungaripterus weii — rendered in applied gold gilding to distinguish it from the others. The legends ELIZABETH II and SAMOA together with the denomination 20 CENTS appear along the border. |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II SAMOA 20 Cents |
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Dsungaripterus weii was a pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia, first formally described by C.C. Young in 1964. The species name honors Chinese paleontologist Wei Zhengyi. Samoa has issued a sustained run of prehistoric fauna coins through the early 2020s, mostly struck by the British Royal Mint's commercial arm and distributed through the numismatic trade rather than domestic circulation — a revenue model that has nothing to do with Samoan monetary policy and everything to do with collector demand for unusual subjects.