5 Dollars The One Ring

Issued under license from Warner Bros. and produced by the Royal Canadian Mint on behalf of Samoa, this piece belongs to a wave of Middle-earth themed legal tender that accelerated sharply after the Amazon series *The Rings of Power* entered production. Samoa has no meaningful numismatic tradition of its own and functions here purely as an issuing authority of convenience, a common arrangement in the collector bullion market.

The selective edge gilding is the technical note worth retaining: applying gold plating only to the rim requires a masking process during electroplating rather than a full-surface application.