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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Queen Mother - Bombed Palace
| Issuer | Bank of Nauru |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Value | 1 Dollar |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER INSPECTING BOMBED BUCKINGHAM PALACE 1940 1 DOLLAR |
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Nauru issued this dollar as part of a wave of commemorative coinage in the 1990s targeting the thematic collector market — a revenue strategy common among small Pacific island nations with negligible domestic circulation needs. The subject references the bombing of Buckingham Palace during the Blitz, which was struck nine times between 1940 and 1941. Queen Elizabeth, then Queen Consort, famously refused to leave London, a decision that earned her considerable public goodwill during the worst of the raids.