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10 Dollars Galileo Galilei
| Issuer | Bank of Nauru |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Value | 10 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | The national arms of Nauru displayed centrally, comprising a quartered shield with a frigate bird, a star, phosphate mining symbols, and a flowering plant, flanked by two frigate bird wings as supporters. A scroll below bears the national motto 'GOD'S WILL FIRST', and the word 'NAOERO' appears above the shield. The circular legend 'BANK OF NAURU' arcs around the upper field, with the date '1994' inscribed at the bottom. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Nauru's 1994 commemorative program leaned heavily on European scientific figures — an unusual choice for a Pacific island nation whose own history centered on phosphate extraction and, by the early 1990s, a sovereign wealth fund already beginning its catastrophic mismanagement. The Galileo issue coincided roughly with the 1992–1993 Vatican commission that formally rehabilitated Galileo, closing a 360-year dispute over his condemnation by the Inquisition.
These coins were struck for the collector market and saw no meaningful circulation on Nauru itself.