5 Dollars Sesame Street - Oscar the Grouch

Samoa has been a reliable vehicle for licensed novelty silver issues since the early 2010s, with the Central Bank lending its authority to a steady stream of pop-culture collector pieces produced almost entirely for the gift and hobby market rather than genuine numismatic circulation. This Oscar the Grouch piece is part of a broader Sesame Street series — the IP licensed through Sesame Workshop — targeting nostalgic buyers in North American and European retail channels.

These issues never circulate. The KM reference places it within a catalog that by 2022 had grown unwieldy with such pieces.