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50 Dollars Mars
| Issuer | Republic of the Marshall Islands |
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| Year | 1994 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The central field bears the official Seal of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, depicting a traditional Marshallese stick chart navigation device in the lower foreground, flanked by a palm tree at left and a traditional outrigger sailing canoe at right, with a frigate bird in flight above a rising sun at the top. The seal is enclosed within a decorative chain border. The legend REPUBLIC OF THE MARSHALL ISLANDS arcs along the upper periphery, with the denomination $50 at the left and the date 1994 at the right within the chain border. The Marshallese national motto JEPILPILIN KE EJUKAAN curves along the lower periphery, with the word SEAL inscribed on a ribbon at the base of the central device. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIC OF THE MARSHALL ISLANDS $50 JEPILPILIN KE EJUKAAN 1994 |
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The Marshall Islands began issuing commemorative coinage in the late 1980s under licensing arrangements that outsourced production entirely — most pieces in this space program series were struck at private mints rather than a sovereign facility. The Mars issue arrived the year NASA's Mars Observer mission had just been declared lost, having gone silent three days before its scheduled orbital insertion in August 1993.
Collector appetite for the series cooled faster than anticipated, and many issues were melted or remain in original packaging, making raw circulated examples genuinely unusual.