30 Dollars - Elizabeth II Year of the Tiger: Prosperity

Tuvalu's authority to issue its own coinage stems from its 1978 independence from British administration, though the island nation's economic reliance on licensing deals — including its highly lucrative .tv internet domain — has made numismatic programs a meaningful revenue source. This piece was struck by the Perth Mint under those arrangements. The 2010 lunar year series targeting Chinese-Australian collector markets was a calculated commercial exercise, not a domestic monetary necessity for a country whose resident population barely exceeds 10,000.