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5 Dollars Sea Turtle
| Issuer | Palau |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A large sea turtle is depicted swimming in vivid full color across the central field, rendered with detailed scute patterning on its carapace in shades of brown, purple, and gold. The underwater scene features a sandy seabed with coral formations, sea grasses, a red starfish, and several tropical fish including angelfish and butterfly fish swimming in the blue water above. The entire marine tableau is applied in polychrome enamel color. The legend 'MARINE - LIFE PROTECTION' arcs along the upper periphery within a beaded border. |
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Palau's early silver issues from the late 1990s were produced under a licensing arrangement that outsourced both design and minting to foreign facilities — a common arrangement for the island nation, which gained full independence only in 1994 and had no domestic mint infrastructure whatsoever. The 1998 marine series drew directly on Palau's constitutional mandate to protect its marine environment, enshrined in a provision that makes it one of the few nations in the world with ecological protection written into its founding legal document.