10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Brandenburg Gate

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.