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50 Tala Palmerston Island
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2019 |
| Type | Fantasy coin |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicts Neptune, shown as a bearded, crowned figure holding a trident in his right hand, seated astride a large shark facing right. The legend PALMERSTON ISLAND appears in two lines in the upper right field, with the date 2019 below it. The denomination legend LIMASEFULU TALA is inscribed along the lower border. The engraver's initials ВБ (Vitaly Bakhtinov) appear in the lower left field. The design is executed in high relief against a mirror-polished field, consistent with proof-style striking. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 TALA |
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Palmerston Island is one of the most isolated atolls in the Pacific, inhabited almost entirely by descendants of a single English settler, William Marsters, who arrived in 1863 and eventually fathered dozens of children across three simultaneous families. The Cook Islands has leaned on that story repeatedly for commemorative issues aimed squarely at the collector market.
Silver-plated copper-nickel at this weight point is a budget composition dressed for display, not circulation — these never reached Palmerston, which has no retail economy to speak of.