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5 Tala Mozart Ball
| Issuer | Samoa |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Value | 5 Tala |
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| Reverse description | A colorized portrait bust of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart faces three-quarters right, depicted wearing a powdered wig and a red coat with lace collar, rendered in the style of a classical 18th-century portrait miniature. The bust is set within a double red-bordered circular medallion against a green colored field. The curved legend DIE GOLDENE MOZARTKUGEL arcs around the upper periphery of the sphere in dark lettering, while the year 2016 appears in a cartouche at the lower portion of the design, evoking the famous Salzburg confection in both name and spherical form. |
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| Mintage | 2016 - Proof - 999 |
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Issued under Samoa's long-running commemorative program, which has leaned heavily on novelty formats to attract the collector market. The spherical format requires a specialized minting process using two curved dies pressed into a malleable blank — a technique developed and largely monopolized by the Austrian Mint, which has produced the bulk of these ball-format coins for various issuing authorities worldwide.
The Mozart connection traces to Salzburg, his birthplace, rather than to any Samoan historical link.