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5 Tala Momotaro & Oni (Anime style)
| Issuer | Samoa |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Weight | 31.1 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | ONE OUNCE SAMOA·2022 9999 SILVER FA`AVAE I LE ATUA SAMOA 5 TALA (Translation: God be the foundation of Samoa) |
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Momotaro — the boy born from a peach who defeats a band of demons — is among the oldest and most widely retold stories in Japanese folklore, with written versions traceable to the Muromachi period and mass print versions spreading through Edo-era woodblock publishing. Samoa has become one of the more prolific issuers of Japanese-themed collector coinage partly because Pacific island mints operate under fewer design licensing constraints than Japanese domestic mints, which remain conservative in their commemorative programs.
The .9999 fineness here is a notch above the .999 used on most bullion-adjacent issues in this format.