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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II Posthumous, Road Runner, Colourised
| Issuer | Samoa |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Value | 5 Tala |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 2023 - BU - 3,000 |
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Samoa's wildlife-themed commemorative program has leaned heavily on the licensed Looney Tunes properties since the early 2020s, with the Road Runner issue sitting within a broader series that includes multiple characters released across short windows to drive collector demand. These are produced for the international bullion-commemorative market rather than any domestic monetary purpose — Samoa's formal currency is the tālā, and five-dollar face values on silver rounds bearing Elizabeth II's effigy are a legal fiction common to several Pacific island issuing authorities.
The posthumous Elizabeth II obverse dates this piece to the post-September 2022 transition period, when mints scrambled to exhaust existing portrait licenses before shifting to Charles III.