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5 Dollars VW T1 SAMBA BUS
| Issuer | Palau |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Currency | Dollar of the United States (1992-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | VW T1 SAMBA BUS (1951-1967) 2012 Road Legends 125 YEARS OF AUTOMOBILE |
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Palau has built a cottage industry around novelty bullion, and this piece sits squarely in that tradition — licensed Volkswagen imagery on Pacific island coinage with no connection to Palauan monetary history whatsoever. The T1 Microbus, often called the Samba for its 23-window deluxe variant, was produced at Wolfsburg from 1950 until Hanover took over bus production in 1956, with Brazilian manufacture continuing into the 1970s under a separate Volkswagen do Brasil arrangement.
The coins in this series were struck by B.H. Mayer's Kunstprägeanstalt in Munich under license.