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| Issuer | Bank of Nauru |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1993-date) |
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| Reverse lettering | 60TH ANNIVERSARY INVESTMENT COIN MEXICO 1949 - 2009 5 Dollars 1/2G.99999 FINEST GOLD |
| Edge | Reeded |
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| Additional information |
Nauru's numismatic program has long operated as a revenue mechanism for the island nation, with coin issuing rights licensed to external minting and marketing firms rather than managed by any domestic minting infrastructure. The "Bank of Nauru" imprimatur on these pieces is largely nominal — the institution itself collapsed in the early 2000s amid the broader fiscal catastrophe that followed Nauru's phosphate exhaustion. The 60th anniversary referenced here marks the 1949 founding of the People's Republic of China, a common hook for Pacific island commemorative gold issues targeting Asian collector markets.