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500 Dollars Notre-Dame
| Issuer | Republic of Palau |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#927 |
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| Reverse description | Exceptionally detailed high-relief representation of the western facade of Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, faithfully reproducing its three ornate portals surmounted by elaborate archivolts filled with sculptural programmes of saints and biblical scenes. Above the portals, the Gallery of Kings presents a frieze of twenty-eight crowned royal figures rendered in fine relief across the full width of the facade. At the centre portal, the doorway features an inlaid panel of purple Tiffany-style art glass replicating the effect of the cathedral's celebrated stained-glass windows. The legend NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS is inscribed in the lower field in decorative Gothic-style lettering. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Palau's legal tender coinage program has operated largely as a collector bullion vehicle since the 1990s, with the republic's monetary arrangement with the United States giving it no practical need for domestic circulating gold. This piece belongs to a niche within that program — the "Tiffany Art" series — which began in 2005 and has paired .9999 gold with hand-set cathedral glass across a succession of Gothic European ecclesiastical subjects.
Notre-Dame de Paris sustained catastrophic fire damage in April 2019, and this 2021 issue was struck while the restoration effort was still in its earliest phase. The borosilicate-style glass insert in each piece is individually unique — no two are chromatically identical.