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50 Dollars To the Heroes of Vietnam War
| Issuer | Republic of the Marshall Islands |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | The obverse displays the National Seal of the Republic of the Marshall Islands at center, featuring a frigatebird with outstretched wings above a traditional Marshallese outrigger canoe and an atoll landscape, with crossed traditional implements and a radiant sun above. The seal is encircled by a chain-link border. The upper legend reads REPUBLIC OF THE MARSHALL ISLANDS, with the denomination $50 to the left and the date 1995 to the right of the seal. The lower legend reads JEPILPILIN KE EJUKAAN, the national motto, with the word SEAL inscribed on a banner at the base of the central device. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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The Marshall Islands began issuing commemorative coinage in 1986 under authority granted by its Compact of Free Association with the United States, a political arrangement that also explains the persistent dollar denomination — the islands use U.S. currency and have no central bank of their own. The Vietnam commemorative series of the mid-1990s was produced by the U.S. Mint's contractor network and sold almost exclusively to collector markets, with negligible circulation.
The 1995 Vietnam issue appeared the same year Congress was debating full normalization of diplomatic relations with Hanoi, which President Clinton ultimately completed in July of that year.