20 Dollars Aztec Five Suns

Palau has operated as one of the more prolific novelty bullion issuers since gaining independence in 1994, licensing its monetary authority to private minting programs with no meaningful domestic circulation. This piece draws on the Aztec cosmological concept of the Five Suns — successive world ages each destroyed and replaced — a narrative recorded primarily in the 16th-century Nahuatl manuscript known as the Legend of the Five Suns. The KM#922.1 designation suggests a variant classification, implying at least one parallel issue exists within the same release.