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5 Dollars Monopoly Game Board: Jail
| Issuer | Samoa |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Technique | Colored, Milled |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features the coat of arms of Samoa rendered in antique finish relief on the left portion of the rectangular field, depicting a shield charged with the Southern Cross constellation of five stars, surmounted by a cross, and encircled by olive branches, with a scroll below bearing the national motto. To the right of the arms, the issuer name 'SAMOA' appears in bold raised lettering at the top, separated by a ruled line from the date '2023' below, followed by the denomination '5 DOLLARS' and the fineness specification '1oz Ag .999' in the lower right quadrant. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Samoa has become a reliable vehicle for novelty legal-tender issues produced almost entirely for the collector market, and this piece is straightforwardly one of them. The Monopoly licensing agreement with Hasbro has generated dozens of coin releases across multiple mints and issuing authorities over the past two decades, with Pacific island nations — Niue, Tuvalu, Samoa — serving as the nominal issuers of record while production typically runs through private minting operations in Europe or Australia.
The "Jail" space dates to the original 1935 Darrow/Parker Brothers commercial release of the board game, itself adapted from Elizabeth Magie's 1903 Landlord's Game.