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5 Dollars Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
| Issuer | Government of Kiribati |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Value | 5 Dollars |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a gold-plated stylized depiction of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in a cartoonish, festive rendering, centered within a gold-plated holly-and-berry wreath. Rudolph's nose is represented by an applied ruby-red inlay. The background field is engraved with an intricate snowflake pattern, while two silver jingle bells tied with a bow adorn the lower portion. The curved legend RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER arcs along the upper left field, and the denomination 5$ appears in the lower exergue. |
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Kiribati has no functional numismatic tradition of its own — the island nation uses Australian dollars in daily commerce and has issued collector coins almost exclusively through foreign minting contractors targeting the novelty market. This piece is a product of that arrangement, with the licensing of a Rankin/Bass character whose copyright history is considerably more tangled than the coin's provenance.