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SOUVENIR COINS OF EASTER ISLAND.
Easter Island (Rapa Nui) is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeastern most point of the Polynesian triangle. The island is a special territory of Chile.
The name "Easter Island" was given by the island's first recorded European visitor, the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, who encountered it on Easter Sunday 1722. Easter Island is one of the world's most isolated inhabited islands.
The main town, harbor and capital of the Chilean province of Easter Island is Hanga Roa.
The undeciphered Easter island script rongorongo may be one of the very few writing systems created ex nihilo, without outside influence. But Easter Island is really famous for its monumental statues, called moai, created by the Rapanui people.
The moai were carved during a relatively short and intense burst of creative and productive megalithic activity. A total of 887 monolithic stone statues have been inventoried on the island and in museum collections. Some upright moai have become buried up to their necks by shifting soils.
The period when the statues were produced remains disputed, with estimates ranging from 400 CE to 1500 – 1700 CE. Almost all (95%) moais were carved out of distinctive, compressed, easily worked volcanic ash or tuff found at a single site inside the extinct volcano Rano Raraku.
The statues' production and transportation is considered a remarkable intellectual, creative, and physical feat. The tallest moai erected, called Paro, was almost 10 metres (33 ft) high and weighed 75 tonnes; the heaviest erected was a shorter but squatter moai at Ahu Tongariki, weighing 86 tons; and one unfinished sculpture, if completed, would have been approximately 21 metres (69 ft) tall with a weight of about 270 tons.
Each statue represents a deceased long-ear chief or important person, their body interred within the ahu, or coastal platforms, the moai stand upon.
Easter Island – it is a world heritage site with much of the island protected within the Rapa Nui National Park and region as classified by UNESCO since 1995.
These coins issued special for numismatic purposes and are not official legal tender.

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Denomination: 200 Pesos Year: 2007 Material: Bimetal Description: Obverse: In the center – creator god Makemake. Semicircular inscription: ISLA DE PASCUA (to the left), RAPA NUI (to the right). Beneath – year of issue. Reverse: Hammerhead shark, beneath – Rapanui inscription: niuhi tapaka’i. Above – denomination: 200 PESOS. Bimetal. Metal of insert – nickel plated steel, metal of ring – brass. Diameter – 25.00 mm, weight – 4.79 g., edge – incised. Country or town: Easter Island

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Denomination: 500 Pesos Year: 2007 Material: Bimetal Description: Obverse: In the center – creator god Makemake. Semicircular inscription: ISLA DE PASCUA (to the left), RAPA NUI (to the right). Beneath – year of issue. Reverse: The famous huge carved stone heads found on the Island, to the left – Rapanui inscription: moai. Above – denomination: 500 PESOS. Bimetal. Metal of insert – brass, metal of ring – nickel plated steel. Diameter – 27.00 mm, weight – 5.94 g., edge – incised. Country or town: Easter Island

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