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The obverse displays the national coat of arms of Kiribati in the upper central field, featuring a heraldic shield bearing a rising sun over ocean waves with a frigate bird in flight above, rendered in high relief against a mirror-polished field. Beneath the shield, a curved scroll ribbon bears the national motto in Gilbertese in raised lettering. The country name KIRIBATI appears in large bold letters along the lower periphery, flanked by the date 1993. |
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The reverse commemorates the first extravehicular activity in space, depicting a Soviet cosmonaut in a full pressure suit marked with the CCCP insignia, tethered by a umbilical line and shown floating freely in the void of space against a stippled field representing the cosmos. Above and to the left, the Voskhod 2 spacecraft is rendered in detail with its distinctive solar panels and conical reentry module. The denomination 20 DOLLARS appears in two lines to the upper right, while the curved legend FIRST SPACE WALK 1965 is inscribed along the lower rim, commemorating Alexei Leonov's historic spacewalk of 18 March 1965. |
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