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10 Dollars Lanner falcon
| Issuer | Bank of Eritrea |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Value | 10 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | Central circular cartouche depicts a coastal desert scene featuring a dromedary camel standing at left beneath a palm tree, with a traditional dhow sailing vessel on calm waters at right, and seabirds in flight above the horizon. The legend ERITREA arcs along the upper border in Latin script, flanked by a ring of stars, while the date 1996 appears in the lower field of the inner circle. Surrounding the central cartouche, the country name is additionally inscribed in Ge'ez (Ethiopic) script at left and Arabic script at right, separated by star ornaments. |
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| Obverse lettering | ኤርትሪያ ★★★ ERITREA ★★★ الارتري ★★★ 1996 PM (Translation: Eritrea) |
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Eritrea gained independence from Ethiopia in 1993 after a thirty-year armed struggle, and the Bank of Eritrea was established almost immediately — making this 1996 issue one of the earliest commemorative coins struck under the new sovereign authority. The country had no pre-existing mint infrastructure and contracted production abroad, which accounts for the coin's specifications matching the widely-used Commonwealth commemorative standard of the period.
The lanner falcon breeds in the highland regions of Eritrea and was a natural choice for a young nation defining its iconographic vocabulary from scratch.