20 Cents Nine Tailed Fox

The nine-tailed fox appears across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean folklore as a shape-shifting supernatural creature — benevolent or malevolent depending on the tradition — with origins traceable to the Shan Hai Jing, a Chinese classic compiled roughly between the 4th and 1st centuries BC. Samoa has become a prolific issuer of themed collector coins through partnerships with the New Zealand Mint, producing gold-plated copper rounds like this one almost exclusively for the gift and novelty market rather than any numismatic series with coherent continuity.