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5 Dollars Swordfish
| Issuer | Republic of Palau |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Currency | Dollar of the United States (1992-date) |
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| Reverse description | The central field features a vibrant full-color applied image depicting a leaping swordfish (Xiphias gladius) breaking the ocean surface, rendered in blue, black, and white tones. Beneath the waterline, a colorful coral reef scene is visible in the lower field. In the background, a small tropical island with palm trees and a navigational structure is depicted. The legend MARINE-LIFE PROTECTION arcs along the upper periphery in incuse lettering, all within a beaded border. |
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| Mintage | 2000 |
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Palau's late 1990s and early 2000s marine life series was produced under a licensing arrangement common to small Pacific island nations with no meaningful domestic coin circulation — the pieces were struck for the collector market and never intended as working currency. The Republic of Palau, which entered free association with the United States in 1994, issues its coinage through contracted mints rather than any facility of its own.
KM#73 belongs to a run of thematically consistent issues tied to Palau's identity as a marine biodiversity hotspot — the archipelago sits above one of the most species-rich reef systems in the Indo-Pacific.