10 Tala Charles Darwin, DNA

Descrizione del dritto	The national coat of arms of Samoa occupies the central field, depicting a quartered shield bearing a Southern Cross constellation of five stars in the lower half and a coconut palm above wavy lines in the upper half, all set against a globe with meridian lines and flanked by two olive branches. A cross surmounts the shield at the apex. A ribbon scroll below the shield bears the national motto legend. The country name SAMOA arcs along the upper rim, and the denomination $10 appears in the lower field.
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Legenda del dritto	Accedi per vedere i dettagli
Descrizione del rovescio	Accedi per vedere i dettagli
Scrittura del rovescio	Accedi per vedere i dettagli
Legenda del rovescio	Accedi per vedere i dettagli
Bordo	Accedi per vedere i dettagli
Zecca	Accedi per vedere i dettagli
Tiratura	Accedi per vedere i dettagli
Informazioni aggiuntive	Issued to mark the 150th anniversary of On the Origin of Species and the bicentennial of Darwin's birth, this coin belongs to a wave of commemoratives released by Pacific island nations in 2009 — many with no direct connection to the subject matter beyond a licensing arrangement. Samoa's entry distinguishes itself with the partial gold plating applied to the double-helix motif, a design choice that conflates Darwin's own work with the 1953 Watson-Crick discovery of DNA structure, a leap Darwin never lived to see by nearly a century.

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