10 Dollars Palazzo Publico

Nauru's late-2000s commemorative program leaned heavily on UNESCO World Heritage architecture, and this piece targets the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena — the medieval civic palace that has housed the city's government continuously since the 1290s. Nauru itself, a phosphate-exhausted microstate of roughly 10,000 people, had no particular connection to Italian civic architecture; the series was commercially driven, produced for the collector market rather than domestic circulation.