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20 Dollars Doni Tondo
| Issuer | Republic of Palau |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features the national arms of the Republic of Palau at centre, depicting Neptune seated with a trident alongside a mermaid within a shield cartouche, surmounted by a traditional Palauan outrigger canoe. The circular legend REPUBLIC OF PALAU arcs above the arms, flanked by five-pointed stars, with the denomination 20$ inscribed below. A broad outer border is decorated with an intricate micropuzzle pattern of interlocking jigsaw pieces rendered in high relief, with scattered missing-piece voids creating a dynamic visual effect. The series name MICROPUZZLE arcs along the upper rim and TREASURES along the lower rim, both in bold raised lettering against the puzzle-piece border. The inscription RAINBOW'S END appears beneath the shield in the inner field. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Palau has built one of the more aggressive bullion-and-collector programs in the Pacific, routinely licensing major art works for large-format silver issues aimed squarely at the European collector market. The Doni Tondo — Michelangelo's only surviving panel painting, housed in the Uffizi since the Medici acquired it in the sixteenth century — has appeared on coins before, but the 65mm format allows reproduction at a scale where the painting's complex tondo geometry actually translates with some fidelity in relief.
The frame of the original is considered as significant as the work itself, carved likely by Francesco del Tasso around 1506.