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10 Dollars Miss Universe Namibia
| Issuer | Namibia (1990-date) |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Value | 10 Dollars |
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| Obverse lettering | UNITY LIBERTY JUSTICE REPUBLIC OF NAMIBIA 1995 |
| Reverse description | A full-color photographic portrait of a leopard (Panthera pardus) in close-up fills the central field, rendered in naturalistic polychrome coloring applied over the struck silver surface. The animal is depicted facing three-quarters to the right, its distinctive spotted coat rendered in fine detail against a warm ochre and tan savanna background. To the upper right of the field, the Miss Universe franchise logo and the stylized legend NAMIBIA appear in black script. The denomination $10 is inscribed on a plain silver reserve at the base of the design, beneath the colored insert, with a beaded border encircling the entire reverse. |
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Namibia's Miss Universe commemorative program launched in the mid-1990s as the newly independent nation — sovereign only since 1990 — used numismatic issues aggressively to generate foreign currency revenue. Michelle McLean, a Namibian, had won the Miss Universe title in 1992, and this coin capitalized directly on that victory. The series was aimed squarely at thematic collectors rather than domestic circulation.