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50 Dollars Saturn
| Issuer | Republic of the Marshall Islands |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Weight | 31.1 g |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a finely detailed depiction of the god Saturn, rendered as a muscular, bearded male figure draped at the waist and seated to the left, holding a sheaf of wheat or grain stalks over his right shoulder. He is positioned before a large, realistically rendered globe of the planet Saturn complete with its distinctive ring system, set against a star-filled deep-space field with a smaller celestial body visible to the right. The astrological symbol for Saturn appears prominently in the lower left field, with the inscription SATURN below it. The date 1994 is engraved along the upper rim, and the denomination $50 is inscribed along the lower rim. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1994 Saturn $50 |
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The Marshall Islands began issuing commemorative coinage in the late 1980s under a licensing arrangement that effectively outsourced production to the U.S. Mint and later to private minting firms — the islands themselves have no mint facility. This Saturn issue belongs to a space-themed series that leaned heavily on American NASA iconography, reflecting the RMI's close political ties to the United States under the Compact of Free Association signed in 1986.
Collector demand for this series has softened considerably since the 1990s boom in novelty silver rounds collapsed.