5 Dollars VW T1 SAMBA BUS

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.