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5 Dollars Moorish-Idol Fish
| Issuer | Palau |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Central effigy of Neptune shown from the waist up, bearded and draped, raising a trident in his right hand while a sailing vessel in relief appears before him in the lower field. The denomination '5$' is inscribed to the left of the figure. The circular legend 'REPUBLIC OF PALAU' arcs across the upper field and '2001' descends along the right, all within a beaded border. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIC OF PALAU 2001 5$ |
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Palau's marine-themed silver program, launched in 1992 with the Republic's first commemorative issues, became one of the more commercially successful Pacific Island coin series of its decade — sold almost entirely to collectors outside Palau, whose domestic economy runs on the US dollar. The Moorish Idol entry from 2001 belongs to a run that leaned heavily on the country's nominal proximity to the coral triangle as marketing justification, though Palau's reef ecosystem is genuinely among the most biodiverse on the planet.
KM#75 was struck at a reported mintage low enough to sustain secondary market premiums through the early 2000s collector bubble.