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5 Dollars Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Issuer Government of Kiribati
Year 2015
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Currency Dollar (1979-date)
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Obverse description The obverse displays the coat of arms of Kiribati (Christmas Island) centrally positioned in the field, depicting a shield bearing a frigatebird in flight above a rising sun over ocean waves. A scroll below the shield bears the national motto in Gilbertese: TE MAURI TE RAOI AO TE TABOMOA. The legend CHRISTMAS ISLAND arcs along the upper rim, while KIRIBATI 2015 is inscribed along the lower rim, all rendered in a polished proof finish.
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Reverse script Latin
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Kiribati has no functional numismatic tradition of its own — the island nation uses Australian dollars in daily commerce and has issued collector coins almost exclusively through foreign minting contractors targeting the novelty market. This piece is a product of that arrangement, with the licensing of a Rankin/Bass character whose copyright history is considerably more tangled than the coin's provenance.

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