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10 Tala - Tanumafili II Robert Louis Stevenson
| Issuer | Samoa |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Weight | 31.69 g |
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| Reverse description | A richly composed commemorative design fills the field with multiple scenes referencing Robert Louis Stevenson's life and literary legacy. In the upper left, a large square-rigged sailing vessel is depicted under full sail on open seas. To the upper right, a decorative script legend reads TREASURE ISLAND above the date 1994, accompanied by a cartographic rendering of the Samoan islands of Upolu and Savaii on a scroll. In the lower left, a vignette depicts pirates digging for buried treasure on a rocky shore. The foreground features a bust-length portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson, shown holding a quill pen over an open book. The legend ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON curves along the left periphery, with the dates 1850 - 1894 along the right. |
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| Reverse lettering | TREASURE ISLAND 1994 UPOLU SAVAII ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 1850 - 1894 |
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Robert Louis Stevenson spent the last four years of his life in Samoa, settling at Vailima on Upolu in 1890 after his doctors advised a permanent warm climate for his tuberculosis. He died there in December 1894 — the centenary of which this coin directly commemorates. Samoans called him Tusitala, "Teller of Tales," and carried his body to the summit of Mount Vaea for burial, a trek he had requested himself.
Tanumafili II, who appears as issuing head of state, was born the same year Stevenson died, a coincidence that gave the centenary particular local resonance.