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10 Euros John Borg
| Issuer | Malta |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#253 |
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| Reverse description | A three-quarter facing bust of the Maltese botanist John Borg (1873–1945) is rendered in fine relief, depicting him as a middle-aged man in a suit and tie with a mustache. To his right in the field, a detailed botanical spray of flowering plants is depicted, referencing his scientific work. The denomination 10 EURO appears to the right of the portrait in the upper field. The curved legend JOHN BORG · BOTANIST · 1873 - 1945 arcs along the upper border of the coin. |
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| Reverse lettering | JOHN BORG · BOTANIST · 1873 - 1945 10 EURO |
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John Borg (1879–1945) was Malta's foremost botanist, spending decades cataloguing the island's flora and producing the foundational Descriptive Flora of the Maltese Islands in 1927 — still a standard reference nearly a century later. He worked largely without institutional funding, conducting fieldwork across Malta and Gozo while simultaneously serving as curator of the Argotti Botanic Gardens in Floriana.
Malta's commemorative silver program has increasingly honored scientific and cultural figures overlooked by mainstream European numismatics. Borg sits squarely in that category.