Samoa's numismatic program has issued heavily under licensing arrangements with the Pobjoy Mint and similar private producers since the early 2000s, generating collector-market pieces with no meaningful domestic circulation. This is one of them — a gold-plated copper novelty nominally denominated in Samoan currency but produced entirely for the international souvenir trade.
Samoa's numismatic program has issued heavily under licensing arrangements with the Pobjoy Mint and similar private producers since the early 2000s, generating collector-market pieces with no meaningful domestic circulation. This is one of them — a gold-plated copper novelty nominally denominated in Samoan currency but produced entirely for the international souvenir trade.