10 Dollars Christmas Island

正面描述	The obverse features the shield from the coat of arms of Kiribati in the upper field, depicting a frigate bird in flight above a rising sun over ocean waves. Below the shield, a curved scroll banner bears the national motto in Gilbertese: TE MAURI TE RAOI AO TE TABOMOA. The issuer name KIRIBATI and the date 2005 are inscribed in bold lettering along the lower portion of the field against a mirrored proof background.
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正面铭文	TE MAURI TE RAOI AO TE TABOMOA KIRIBATI 2005
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附加信息	Christmas Island — properly Kiritimati — is the world's largest coral atoll by land area and sits within the Line Islands group that Kiribati administers. This $10 gold issue is part of a broader wave of small-format collector gold that Pacific island nations began producing in the early 2000s, largely through the Pobjoy Mint, targeting the numismatic market rather than domestic circulation. Kiribati has no domestic gold-coin tradition of its own; these pieces exist because the licensing revenue matters to a nation with a GDP measured in the low hundreds of millions.

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