30 Dollars - Elizabeth II Cat

Tuvalu's coinage authority has long licensed novelty gold issues through the Perth Mint under arrangements that have little to do with Tuvaluan monetary policy and everything to do with the global collector market. This "Cat" series entry is one of dozens of themed fractional gold pieces Perth has produced on Tuvalu's behalf, a relationship that dates to the 1970s and remains one of the more commercially transparent arrangements in modern numismatics.

Mintages on these Perth-struck Tuvalu issues are typically capped in the low hundreds, enforced by the mint rather than any legislative constraint from Funafuti.