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5 Dollars Tempora Mutantur
| Issuer | Kiribati |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#24a |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a stylized representation of the solar system, showing the sun at center surrounded by planetary orbital rings with several planets rendered in relief against a finely lined field evoking the cosmos. The scene is presented on the half-circle flan with the curved edge at top and the flat edge at bottom. The Latin motto 'TEMPORA MUTANTUR' (Times change) is inscribed in a bold legend along the flat lower edge and continuing along the curved border, serving as the primary textual element of the design. |
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Kiribati's "Tempora Mutantur" series was issued partly as a revenue mechanism — the island nation, with virtually no domestic numismatic tradition, leaned heavily on foreign coin producers and international collector markets throughout the 1990s. KM#24a is the copper-nickel circulation-strike companion to a silver proof issue, a pairing common in Pacific island coinage programs of this period where the base-metal version technically qualifies as legal tender but was never intended to circulate.
The Latin phrase translates roughly as "times are changing" — drawn from the fuller Renaissance aphorism attributed to various sources, none definitively.