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1 Dollar Jellyfish
| Issuer | Palau |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Diameter | 37.2 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a vibrant full-color applied scene depicting three jellyfish ascending through deep blue oceanic waters above a richly detailed coral reef environment. The dominant central jellyfish, rendered in translucent white and pale blue with long trailing tentacles, is flanked by two smaller specimens. The reef below displays polychrome corals and sea fans in tones of red, orange, green, and yellow. The legend 'MARINE-LIFE PROTECTION' arcs along the upper border in raised Latin letters, all within a beaded border, with the colored scene set within a stylized cartouche framed by dark relief bands. |
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Palau began issuing dollar-denominated collector coins in the late 1990s under a licensing arrangement common among Pacific microstates — the coins are legal tender in name but produced entirely for the international novelty market, never intended for domestic circulation in a country whose de facto currency is the U.S. dollar. The marine life series, of which this is a part, was struck at foreign facilities and distributed through coin dealers and souvenir channels rather than through any central bank distribution network.