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10 Dollars Snow Maiden
| Issuer | Bank of Nauru |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Weight | 34.5 g |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears the national coat of arms of Nauru, featuring a quartered shield supported by two frigate birds with outspread wings, a twelve-pointed star at the chief, and a flowering plant in the lower dexter quarter. A scroll at the base of the shield bears the national motto 'GOD'S WILL FIRST', while a banner above reads 'NAOERO'. The legend 'BANK OF NAURU' arcs along the upper periphery, and the date '2008' is inscribed along the lower periphery, flanked by two small dots. |
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| Mintage | 2008 - Proof - 15,000 |
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Nauru — a phosphate-depleted Pacific island of roughly 10,000 people with no meaningful numismatic tradition — became a prolific issuer of themed collector coins in the 2000s largely because the format required no domestic infrastructure, only a licensing arrangement with a foreign mint. The Snow Maiden series belongs to that wave of contracted issues targeting the European and Russian collector market, where frost-figure iconography sells reliably.
Nauru's nominal authority over such issues is a legal formality; the Bank of Nauru had effectively ceased normal banking operations years prior.