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10 Dollars Ship Greif
| Issuer | Bank of Nauru |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Value | 10 Dollars |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a detailed rendering of the tall ship Greif under full sail, shown in three-quarter view riding stylized ocean waves in the lower field. The vessel's multiple square-rigged masts, billowing sails, and bowsprit are rendered with fine engraved detail. The legend HISTORY OF SEAFARING arcs along the upper periphery, with the ship's name GREIF and the year of her launch 1951 inscribed to the left of the design. The denomination $10 appears in large numerals to the lower right of the field. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Nauru's coinage program has long been managed by external mints producing collector issues with little connection to the island's own economic history. The Greif was a German auxiliary cruiser — officially a converted freighter — that conducted a notable raiding voyage in 1916 before being intercepted and sunk by British forces in the North Sea during a single engagement in which both ships were destroyed. Nauru itself was a German protectorate until Australian forces occupied it in 1914, which gives the subject at least a tangential colonial connection to the issuing territory.