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20 Cents - Elizabeth II Tarbosaurus
| Issuer | Samoa |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Value | 20 Cents (Sene) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The oval, egg-shaped reverse features a highly detailed high-relief depiction of a Tarbosaurus standing upright in a dynamic pose, its powerful jaws open and its diminutive forelimbs raised, set against a rocky ground line. Partially gilt dinosaur skeletal remains are rendered in the lower field beneath the creature's feet, providing a paleontological contrast between life and fossil. The legend TARBOSAURUS arcs along the upper left border in bold relief, while DINOSAURS IN ASIA is inscribed in cursive along the right border. The date 2022 appears in the lower exergual area. |
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Samoa has issued a steady stream of numismatic collector pieces through the New Zealand Mint under licensing arrangements, and this release falls squarely in that category. Tarbosaurus bataar — the Asian cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex — was first described from Mongolian Gobi Desert specimens recovered by Soviet paleontological expeditions in the 1940s and 1950s, though its taxonomic relationship to T. rex has been disputed for decades.
The partial gilding on these issues is applied after striking, a process that has raised questions in some collector circles about long-term adhesion on copper substrates at this weight class.