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5 Dollars Beauty of the Sea
| Issuer | Republic of Palau |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Currency | Dollar of the United States (1992-date) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Palau has issued an extraordinary volume of collector-focused silver pieces since gaining independence in 1994, leveraging its status as a sovereign nation to license colorized and shaped coin programs through the Austrian Mint and other European producers. The "Beauty of the Sea" series falls squarely within this commercial framework — coins designed explicitly for the numismatic market, never intended to circulate in a country whose de facto currency is the US dollar.
KM#473 is one of dozens of Palauan issues attributed to that year alone, most produced under contract rather than by any domestic minting facility.