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5 Dollars Midway Islands
| Issuer | United States Pacific territories |
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| Year | 2005 |
| Type | Fantasy coin |
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| Obverse description | The Great Seal of the United States depicted in the centre of the field, featuring a bald eagle displayed with wings spread, holding an olive branch in its dexter talon and a bundle of thirteen arrows in its sinister talon, with a heraldic shield on its breast. Above the eagle, a glory of clouds surrounds a constellation of stars within an annulet, with the motto ribbon inscribed E PLURIBUS UNUM in the eagle's beak. The legend MIDWAY ISLANDS arcs along the upper rim, while the denomination FIVE DOLLARS is inscribed along the lower rim. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Midway Islands have no civilian population to speak of and no functioning local economy — the atoll is administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as a National Wildlife Refuge. A $5 coin for such a jurisdiction is a fiscal curiosity with no monetary purpose, placing this squarely in the category of non-circulating "fantasy" issues produced for the collector market rather than under any congressional or territorial monetary authority.