5 Numus - Mars Base Alpha

Issuer	Bank of Mars
Year	2024
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Currency	Numus (2024-date)
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Obverse description	The face is dominated by two overlapping circular vignettes set against a dark olive-brown guilloche border with numeral '5' at each corner. The left circle presents a stylised supersonic spacecraft in white intaglio-style line engraving on a burnt-orange underprint, framed by the mottoes 'MARS AUT NIHIL' and 'MARS BASE ALPHA'. The right circle carries a helmeted classical bust of the god Mars in relief against the same orange ground, flanked by a small rocket vignette, with the inscriptions 'A DEO PROTECTORATE', 'SERIE AP 2024', and 'MUNDI MONETAE' completing the design.
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Reverse description	Printed on a light cream polymer ground, the reverse centres on a large circular target vignette with an astronaut figure standing in a Martian landscape, a habitat base structure to the right and a descending rocket craft to the left rendered in warm ochre and brown washes. Antique-style cartographic charts of Mars occupy the upper left and upper right corners as underprint elements, with two facsimile manuscript signatures — 'Treasurer of Mars' at left and 'Secretary of the Treasury' at right — positioned below the issuer heading 'BANK OF MARS'. A Elon Musk quotation and the disclaimer 'THIS NOTE IS NOT LEGAL TENDER' appear as lower border legends.
Reverse lettering	BANK OF MARS THIS NOTE IS NOT LEGAL TENDER 5 FIVE NUMUS 5 THE MARTIAN GOVERNMENT VALUES THIS CURRENCY, AND SO IT SHALL BE "IF HUMANITY DOESN'T LAND ON MARS IN MY LIFETIME, I WOULD BE VERY DISAPPOINTED." E. MUSK
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