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5 Dollars Pearl Harbor
| Issuer | Marshall Islands |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#35 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A raised relief composition depicting four military servicemen — a sailor, a soldier, a helmeted infantryman, and an aviator wearing goggles — shown in profile facing right, their overlapping busts emerging above a horizontal line suggestive of a ship's hull or waterline, with billowing smoke and flames rendered in the background to evoke the attack on Pearl Harbor. The curved legend 'TO THE HEROES OF PEARL HARBOR' arcs along the upper periphery, while 'FIVE DOLLARS' is inscribed in a straight legend below the central design, and the commemorative dates '1941 * 1991' appear in the lower exergue. |
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The Marshall Islands began issuing commemorative coinage in 1986 following the Compact of Free Association with the United States, which granted the republic self-governance while retaining U.S. defense responsibilities — an arrangement that made American military history a commercially logical subject for their mint program. This Pearl Harbor issue appeared on the 50th anniversary of the attack.
KM#35 was struck for the collector market rather than circulation, distributed primarily through mail-order channels that the Marshall Islands mint relied on heavily throughout the early 1990s.