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20 Cents Playing the Lusheng
| Issuer | Samoa |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Value | 20 Cents (Sene) 0.20 WST = RSD 7.39 |
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| Obverse script | Latin/Chinese |
| Obverse lettering | 2025 20 CENTS CHARLES III SAMOA 敦煌莫高窟 DUNHUANG MOGAO GROTTOES |
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The lusheng is a free-reed pipe instrument associated primarily with Miao and other ethnic minority communities across southwestern China and mainland Southeast Asia — its appearance on a Samoan coin is an unusual cultural crossover, likely tied to Samoa's engagement with Pacific-region cultural diplomacy or a commemorative series featuring global musical traditions. Samoa has issued numerous thematic collector pieces through external minting arrangements, most commonly produced by the Perth Mint or B.H. Mayer's Kunstprägeanstalt.
At 29 grams in copper, this sits well outside standard circulating specifications — clearly a bullion-adjacent or collector issue rather than a circulation piece.