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200 Dollars Christmas Island
| Issuer | Kiribati |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1979-date) |
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| Obverse description | The national coat of arms of Kiribati occupies the central field, depicting a shield charged with a rising sun over wavy lines representing the Pacific Ocean, surmounted by a great frigatebird in flight. Beneath the shield, a scroll bears the national motto in Gilbertese: TE MAURI TE RAOI AO TE TABOMOA. The country name KIRIBATI and the date 2005 appear as a bold legend along the lower rim. |
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| Reverse lettering | CHRISTMAS ISLAND $ 200 KIRITIMATI · KIRIBATI |
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Christmas Island — properly Kiritimati — is the world's largest coral atoll by land area and sits within the Pacific Ocean portion of Kiribati, a nation whose scattered island geography made it the first territory on Earth to enter the year 2000 after a controversial 1995 decision to redraw the International Date Line eastward around its islands. That political maneuver was partly economic, intended to attract millennium tourism. This coin belongs to a broader series of Kiribati gold issues produced under contract by external minting facilities, as the nation maintains no domestic mint.