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1 Dollar Christmas Island - Rudolph
| Issuer | Kiribati |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features the coat of arms of Kiribati centrally positioned in the field, depicting a frigatebird in flight above a rising sun over ocean waves on a heraldic shield. Beneath the shield, a scroll cartouche bears the national motto in Gilbertese: TE MAURI TE RAOI AO TE TABOMOA (Health, Peace and Prosperity). The legend CHRISTMAS ISLAND arcs along the upper rim, while KIRIBATI and the date 2016 appear along the lower rim. The coin's specifications, 20 g Ag 925, are inscribed vertically along the right side of the field. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Christmas Island is an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean with no administrative connection to Kiribati, the Pacific island nation roughly 3,000 kilometres to the northeast. This coin's attribution to Kiribati as issuer while invoking Christmas Island is a licensing arrangement common among Pacific microstates that have long permitted their nominal sovereignty to be used for commemorative coin programs targeting the collector market — Kiribati itself has no meaningful domestic circulation for issues of this type.