50 Dollars To the Heroes of Pearl Harbor

The Marshall Islands began issuing commemorative coinage in the late 1980s under a licensing arrangement that quickly made it one of the most prolific — and commercially driven — commemorative programs of the era. This Pearl Harbor issue appeared on the 50th anniversary of the attack, competing in a crowded market of similar pieces from multiple non-US issuers that year. Actual circulation on Majuro was never the intent; these were produced for the American collector market.

KM#36 was struck by the Pobjoy Mint in Surrey, England.