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25 Dollars 20th Anniversary Reunification Germany
| Issuer | Bank of Nauru |
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| Year | 2010 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is struck in the three-dimensional silhouette form of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, rendered in gold-plated fine silver. The architectural facade features five deeply incused passageways framed by twelve Doric columns in high relief, with a detailed frieze above depicting classical figural scenes. Crowning the structure, the celebrated Quadriga group — Victoria driving a four-horse chariot — is finished in contrasting platinized silver, giving it a striking bi-metallic appearance. Inscribed across the attic of the gate are the legends '20TH ANNIVERSARY' and 'REUNIFICATION GERMANY 1990 - 2010', with the denomination '25 DOLLARS' incused between the central columns. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANK OF NAURU 2010 3 OUNCES .999 FINE SILVER GOLD PLATED - PLATINATED 2010 1990 |
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Nauru's numismatic program has long operated as a revenue mechanism for the island nation, with coins struck for collectors who will never set foot in the Pacific. This 2010 piece marks two decades since the Wirtschafts-, Währungs- und Sozialunion of July 1990 — the monetary union that preceded formal political reunification by three months and effectively absorbed the East German Mark at parity for wages and savings up to 6,000 marks, a rate economists at the Bundesbank fought strenuously and lost.
The tri-metal treatment — silver blanks with gold plating and platinum application — was a favored production style among private minting houses in the late 2000s, designed primarily to justify elevated issue prices.