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20 Dollars Starry Night
| Issuer | Palau |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Value | 20 Dollars (20 USD) |
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| Obverse description | The central field features the Republic of Palau coat of arms set within a raised circular medallion, surrounded by the legend REPUBLIC OF PALAU above and RAINBOW'S END below, with the denomination 20$ in the lower field. The outer field is elaborately decorated with a fine embroidery-style relief pattern of scrolling and interlacing textile motifs covering the entire coin surface, evoking needlework and lace artistry. The embroidery-pattern ground is rendered with a crosshatch textile texture across the entire field. The legend FINE EMBROIDERY ART appears among the decorative elements in the outer zone. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Palau has issued legal tender commemoratives under licensing arrangements with foreign designers and distributors since the 1990s, a practice that has little to do with Palauan monetary history and everything to do with the global collector market for high-relief and colored silver rounds dressed as coins. This piece invokes Van Gogh's 1889 painting, executed while he was a voluntary patient at Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence — a fact the secondary market tends to romanticize far more than the painter himself did.