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20 Dollars - Elizabeth II Dugong
| Issuer | Tuvalu |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1976-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Two naturalistically rendered dugongs (Dugong dugon) depicted in dynamic poses within the central field, one swimming above the other, their streamlined bodies and distinctive fluked tails finely detailed against a mirror-polished background with incised wave lines suggesting the marine environment. The legend ENDANGERED WILDLIFE arcs along the upper periphery, while the denomination 20 DOLLARS is inscribed in two lines along the lower field. |
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Tuvalu's 1994 dugong issue appeared during a period when the Pacific nation was actively leveraging its numismatic program as a primary revenue stream — the country's geographic isolation and minimal industrial base made collector coin sales a meaningful contributor to government income. The dugong itself was a deliberate choice, the species being native to the shallow reef waters surrounding the atolls and under increasing pressure from habitat loss across the Indo-Pacific.
KM#20 is catalogued among a run of Tuvaluan wildlife silvers that attracted steady collector interest in the early 1990s but rarely appear in circulation grades for the obvious reason that none ever circulated.