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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Brandenburg Gate
| Issuer | Bank of Nauru |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | The national arms of Nauru displayed in the center of the field, featuring a quartered shield bearing a frigatebird above a star in the upper half and a royal crown with a flowering branch in the lower quarters, flanked by two frigate bird feather supporters. A ribbon above the shield bears the Nauruan name 'NAOERO', while a scroll below carries the national motto 'GOD'S WILL FIRST'. The legend 'BANK OF NAURU' arcs along the upper periphery, and the date '2002' appears in the lower field. The coin exhibits a proof finish with deeply mirrored fields contrasting with frosted relief devices. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Nauru, a phosphate-mined island of roughly 10,000 people with no meaningful numismatic tradition of its own, became a prolific issuer of commemorative coinage in the late 1990s and early 2000s — largely through licensing arrangements with European minting houses targeting the collector market rather than circulation. This piece, tied to the Brandenburg Gate, almost certainly reflects the renewed symbolic weight the gate carried after German reunification in 1990, when it reopened following 28 years bisecting a divided city.
KM#14 is a collector issue with no circulation history.