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1 Tala Johannes Hevelius
| Issuer | Central Bank of Samoa |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Value | 1 Tala |
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| Reverse description | The truncated bust of Johannes Hevelius (1611–1687), the Polish astronomer, is depicted facing slightly left in the right portion of the field, rendered with flowing hair and a moustache in a 17th-century style. To the left, an astronomical sextant or large observational instrument is shown in use, with a small figure of an assistant operating it, evoking Hevelius's celebrated rooftop observatory in Danzig. A celestial globe or full moon appears above in the upper field, accompanied by scattered stars. The curved legend JOHANNES HEVELIUS 1611-1687 arcs along the upper border, and the date 2010 is inscribed in the lower exergue. A beaded inner border frames the entire composition. |
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| Mintage | 2010 - Proof - 10,000 |
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Johannes Hevelius, the seventeenth-century Danzig astronomer, produced his landmark star atlas Firmamentum Sobiescianum in 1687 — the year of his death — cataloguing over 1,500 stars and introducing several constellations still recognized by the IAU today. Samoa's inclusion of him in a gold micro-coin series has no particular historical connection to the Pacific; these issues were produced squarely for the collector bullion market, where sub-gram gold pieces in proof condition command premiums well above melt value.