The Marshall Islands flooded the collector market throughout the 1990s with a relentless stream of commemorative copper-nickel issues, most produced under contract by foreign mints with no connection to domestic circulation. This cheetah piece is part of that wave — a wildlife-themed series aimed squarely at the novelty collector market rather than numismatists.
KM#345 sees little secondary market activity, and surviving examples are almost universally found in original packaging, unhandled.
The Marshall Islands flooded the collector market throughout the 1990s with a relentless stream of commemorative copper-nickel issues, most produced under contract by foreign mints with no connection to domestic circulation. This cheetah piece is part of that wave — a wildlife-themed series aimed squarely at the novelty collector market rather than numismatists.
KM#345 sees little secondary market activity, and surviving examples are almost universally found in original packaging, unhandled.