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10 Tala Marie Curie
| Issuer | Central Bank of Samoa |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Currency | Tala (1967-date) |
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| Obverse description | Against a deeply mirrored black proof field, the central device features the coat of arms of Samoa: a shield bearing a stylised coconut palm above wavy lines and five stars of the Southern Cross, superimposed upon a globe and surmounted by a cross, flanked by two olive branches. A scroll beneath the shield bears the national motto in the lower field. The legend SAMOA arcs across the upper field, and the denomination $10 appears in the lower field below the arms. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Issued as part of Samoa's long-running program of commemorative gold minims honoring international scientific figures, this piece marks the centenary of Marie Curie's 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry — her second Nobel, awarded just three years after she received the Physics prize in 1903, making her the first person to win in two separate sciences. The Stockholm committee's decision to award her at all in 1911 was contested; a faction of the Swedish Academy had urged her to decline the prize amid a tabloid scandal in Paris over her relationship with physicist Paul Langevin.