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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Simpson and his Donkey
| Issuer | Kiribati |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Value | 10 Dollars |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | KIRIBATI TE MAURI TE RAOI AO TE TABOMOA IRB 2016 |
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John Simpson Kirkpatrick — a British-born Australian soldier who used a donkey to ferry wounded men from Anzac Cove during the Gallipoli campaign of 1915 — was killed by shrapnel on May 19, just weeks into the campaign. He had been AWOL from his unit to carry out the work. Kiribati, a Pacific microstate with no historical connection to Anzac, issues these pieces almost entirely for the collector market, a practice common among small island nations leveraging their mint authority for numismatic revenue.