5 Dollars Tiki Viracocha

Viracocha was the supreme creator deity of the pre-Inca Andean world, credited in Quechua cosmology with fashioning the sun, moon, stars, and humanity itself from the shores of Lake Titicaca. Palau has built an aggressive bullion and collector coin program since the 1990s, routinely licensing exotic themes — Mesoamerican, Pacific, and South American iconography alike — to European minting houses targeting the novelty collector market rather than any population with cultural ties to the subject.

The Tiki series pairing a Polynesian label with an Andean deity is a curatorial conflation worth noting.