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10 Tala - Tanumafili II Konrad Adenauer
| Issuer | Central Bank of Samoa |
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| Year | 2003 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | The central field displays the national coat of arms of Samoa, consisting of a shield bearing five stars of the Southern Cross in the lower portion and horizontal wavy lines in the upper portion, surmounted by a crown topped with a Latin cross. The shield is flanked by two olive branches and supported by a scroll bearing the motto FAVAE I LE ATUA SAMOA in the field. The legend SAMOA I SISIFO arcs along the upper periphery, while the denomination $10 appears in the lower field below the arms. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Adenauer's appearance on a Samoan commemorative requires some unpacking. By 2003, small island nations — Samoa among them — had developed a cottage industry of licensing foreign historical figures for collector gold issues, typically produced by European minting houses with only nominal connection to the issuing territory. This piece falls squarely in that category. Adenauer himself died in 1967, having steered West Germany through the Wirtschaftswunder and into NATO; the centenary and other anniversaries of his career generated a wave of such peripheral commemoratives across multiple jurisdictions through the 1990s and early 2000s.