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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II John Fearn
| Issuer | Bank of Nauru |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1993-date) |
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| Obverse description | The national coat of arms of Nauru occupies the central field, depicting a quartered shield supported by two frigate bird feathers, surmounted by a twelve-pointed star and a flowering branch above a scroll bearing the motto GOD'S WILL FIRST. A ribbon at the top of the arms carries the Nauruan name NAOERO. The curved legend BANK OF NAURU arcs along the upper periphery, while the date 1994 appears in large numerals at the bottom of the field. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Nauru issued a series of commemorative silver dollars in the early 1990s honoring figures connected to the island's European contact history, and John Fearn earns his place as the British captain who made that first recorded contact in 1798, naming the island Pleasant Island — a name that stuck in some charts well into the nineteenth century. The Bank of Nauru's authority to issue coinage is largely nominal; the country uses Australian currency for daily commerce, making these pieces collector issues with no realistic circulation history.