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5 Dollars Ladybug in Cloisonné
| Issuer | Republic of Palau |
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| Year | 2009 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse lettering | GOOD LUCK & PROSPERITY 2009 |
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| Mint | B.H. Mayer's Kunstprägeanstalt, Munich |
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Palau's colored nature series of the late 2000s was produced under a licensing arrangement common to many Pacific island micro-states — the coins are legal tender in name, but Palau uses the US dollar in practice and has no domestic mint. Production was contracted to a European manufacturer, almost certainly the Berne-based PAMP or a comparable Swiss or German facility, with the cloisonné enamel work applied post-strike.
Cloisonné on coins at this scale is genuinely labor-intensive: thin metal wires are individually placed to create the color compartments before enamel fill and firing. It is a jewelry technique, not a standard mint process.