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50 Dollars Ford Quadricycle
| Issuer | Republic of the Marshall Islands |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Weight | 31.1 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | 1996 · HENRY FORD'S 1896 QUADRICYCLE · FIFTY DOLLARS |
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The Marshall Islands issued an extensive series of commemorative dollars throughout the 1990s, largely marketed through direct-response channels to collectors in the United States. This piece honors Ford's 1896 Quadricycle, the first self-propelled vehicle Henry Ford built — assembled in a brick shed behind his Detroit home and test-driven at 4 a.m. on June 4th of that year, reportedly too wide to fit back through the shed door after completion.
The Marshall Islands had no domestic demand for such issues; the series was effectively a revenue program backed by the island nation's legal authority to strike coinage.