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20 Cents Artemis & Sagittarius
| Issuer | Central Bank of Samoa |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse lettering | Artemis 20 CENTS |
| Edge | Reeded |
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Samoa's numismatic program has long operated as a revenue-generating vehicle rather than a reflection of domestic monetary history, and this piece is squarely in that tradition — a collector-market product with no meaningful circulation intended. The pairing of Artemis with the Sagittarius zodiac archer draws on their shared iconographic association in Hellenistic tradition, where the goddess of the hunt became a natural celestial stand-in for the sign.
Gold-plated copper issues of this type are produced in quantity for the international collector market, typically through contracted minting arrangements.