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25 Sene Shi Zi
| Issuer | Samoa |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Technique | Milled (high relief) |
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| Reverse script | Latin/Chinese |
| Reverse lettering | The Spine Beast of the Forbidden City 狮子 SHI ZI |
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The "Shi Zi" — lion in Mandarin — places this squarely within the growing market for Chinese-themed Pacific island issues, where Samoa's treaty mint arrangements have made it a vehicle for coins aimed almost entirely at the Asian collector market rather than domestic circulation. Samoa's nominal face value makes these issues legal tender on paper; in practice, not one will cross a shop counter in Apia.