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5 Dollars German Togo
| Issuer | Palau |
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| Year | 1999 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | Seated allegorical figure of Germania, adapted from the design of the German Imperial 100 Mark banknotes of 1906-1910, occupying the central field. The figure is shown enthroned, diademed and draped, holding a sceptre in her right hand, with an eagle-emblazoned shield resting at her left side. The legend 'REPUBLIC OF PALAU 1999' arcs around the upper periphery within a beaded border, while the denomination '5$' appears to the lower left of the figure. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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German Togo — the territory administered by Berlin from 1884 until British and French forces overran it in August 1914, just twelve days into the First World War — is an unusual subject for a Palauan commemorative. Togo's fall was the first German colonial defeat of that war, the campaign lasting barely a fortnight before the wireless station at Kamina was destroyed and the garrison surrendered.
Palau began issuing themed silver dollars and five-dollar pieces in the late 1990s under licensing arrangements common to small Pacific island states with no meaningful domestic coin demand. KM#24 belongs to that first wave.