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10 Cents Cherokee tribe
| Issuer | Mesa Grande Band of Diegueno Mission Indians |
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| Year | 2012-2013 |
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| Weight | 4 g |
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| Obverse description | A spread-winged eagle is depicted in the centre of the field, shown frontally with wings fully extended and talons visible, rendered in fine relief against a mountain landscape background. An inner beaded or rope border encircles the central design, with the legend 'SOVEREIGN NATION' inscribed within the lower portion of the inner circle. The legend 'AMERICA' appears in the lower exergual area, while 'MESA GRANDE' is inscribed along the right inner border in a vertical orientation. The outer border of the coin features a continuous ring of alternating decorative star or cross motifs. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Mesa Grande Band, a small Kumeyaay community in San Diego County, issued this piece as part of a broader wave of Native American tribal token coinage that emerged in the early 2010s — denominated and circulated within reservation boundaries under tribal sovereign authority. The "Cherokee tribe" attribution on a coin issued by a Diegueno band is an oddity worth noting; the two nations are geographically and linguistically unrelated, separated by over a thousand miles.