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5 Dollars Ounce of Luck 2018
| Issuer | Republic of Palau |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Currency | Dollar of the United States (1992-date) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a genuine four-leaf clover preserved and encapsulated beneath a transparent insert at the center of the coin, set against a white satin-textured background. The border surrounding the central insert is rendered in a contrasting black field richly decorated with finely engraved scrolling floral and foliate ornamental motifs. The legend A Better an Ounce of Luck than a Pound of Gold curves along the upper periphery in elegant serif lettering. The date 2018 is inscribed at the bottom of the border field. |
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| Mintage | 2018 - Proof - 2,018 |
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Palau has operated a prolific commemorative coin program since the 1990s, licensing its sovereign issuing authority to foreign minting houses — in this case almost certainly a European producer — to generate revenue entirely detached from any domestic monetary need. The country has no meaningful circulation coinage economy of its own.
The "Ounce of Luck" series trades on four-leaf clover and good-fortune iconography aimed squarely at the gift and novelty collector market. KM#796 places it within a catalog so crowded with Palauan commemoratives that Krause volumes require substantial sub-indexing just to organize them chronologically.