10 Dollars - Elizabeth II John Fearn

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.