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10 Dollars Wilhelm II
| Issuer | Bank of Namibia |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Weight | 20.0 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | UNITY, LIBERTY, JUSTICE 2009 REPUBLIC OF NAMIBIA |
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Issued to mark the centenary of the 1904–1908 Herero and Nama genocide, in which German colonial forces under General Lothar von Trotha killed an estimated 65,000–80,000 Herero and 10,000 Nama people — the twentieth century's first recognized genocide. The coin's gold insert references the mineral wealth that made German South West Africa strategically worth holding in the first place.
Von Trotha's Vernichtungsbefehl, the extermination order issued in October 1904, was eventually rescinded by Berlin but not before the bulk of the killing was done.