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20 Cents Year of the Monkey
| Issuer | Central Bank of Samoa |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Stylized cartoon bust of a monkey facing left, rendered in bold high relief at the center of the butterfly wing-shaped flan, set against a deeply recessed holographic field featuring a geometric honeycomb pattern. The Chinese character 猴 (monkey) appears in raised relief in the upper right of the field, and the legend MONKEY is inscribed in raised Latin letters along the lower portion of the field. |
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Samoa has issued Chinese Zodiac coins since the mid-2010s, targeting the Southeast Asian collector market rather than domestic circulation. These pieces never enter circulation by design — the silver plating over copper keeps production costs low enough for high mintage runs sold through international distributors at a premium over melt.
The Year of the Monkey last fell in 2016, making a 2023 issue a retrospective release with no calendrical justification.