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5 Tala German Railways

Issuer Samoa
Year 2010
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Thickness 2.8 mm
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Obverse script Latin
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Reverse lettering 175 YEARS OF GERMAN RAILWAYS 2010
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Samoa's commemorative program in the late 2000s and early 2010s leaned heavily on transportation themes with broad collector appeal, and this piece targeting German railway history fits that pattern precisely. The Deutsche Bahn and its predecessors built one of the most technically ambitious rail networks of the 19th and 20th centuries — by 1914, Germany operated over 60,000 kilometers of track, more than any other European nation.

KM#217 is a bullion-adjacent commemorative with no domestic circulation history.

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