Tuvalu: unadopted designs

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This 2 cents design was rejected.

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The improved 2 cents design of a stingray.

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The amended 10 cents design of a crab.

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This 20 cents design of a flying fish was rejected.

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The improved 20 cents design.

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The improved 5 cents design showing a tiger shark.

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The 50 cents design. The octopus looks much more realistic now.

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The turtle design on the dollar still had too much detail, the RMAC thought.

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The improved dollar design.  Apparently the nine sides of the coin were meant to represent Tuvalu's nine islands.

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The five dollars. The experts said that the man standing up like that would sink the craft.

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Another attempt at the 5 dollar design.

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Nearly there. But the man standing up would sink the boat when it was being launched, said the experts.

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Tuvalu, 5 dollars, 1976.



The finished design.  This was not a circulation coin.

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The meeting house on the 50 dollars. But where are the people?

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There you are, people. You heard me.