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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clinker, post: 193500, member: 6229&quot;]In1992 the Island of Maui instituted a coin program designed to provide funds for the non-profit <b>Maui Chamber of Commerce Foundation:</b></p><p><b> </b></p><p><b></b>Maui is the second largest of the Hawaiian Islands and has long been popular with tourists because of its tropical beaches, scenery and authentic native cultural activities.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>With the cooperation of the members of the <b>Maui Chamber of Commerce</b> it was decided to create a <b>Trade Dollar</b> that would be accepted at face value toward any purchases made at participating businesses during the year of issue.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>To entice tourists to keep the <b>Trade Dollars as souvenirs </b>and encourage numismatists to collect them, it was further decided the dollar would be about the size of a Unitted States silver dollar and carry a design representing Maui&#039;s unique wildlife.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The <b>Maui Trade Dollar </b>is composed of Copper-nickel.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This 2006 dollar was designed by Sarah Olsen, an eight-year-old. Her design features a hump back whale, puffer fish and coral. Click here to see it: <a href="http://www.joelscoins.com/images/maui06r.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.joelscoins.com/images/maui06r.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.joelscoins.com/images/maui06r.jpg</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Clinker</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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