SAMOA Silver 10 Tala 1994 Tigris Expedition / Burning of the Ship. Top Pop! NGC PF 66 UC

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Certification details

Certification number: 8556403-003

Grade: PF 66 ULTRA CAMEO

NGC collectible ID: 536236

Nominal value: S10T

Mint Mark: SAMOA

Variety: BURNING TIGRIS

Year: 1994

1994, Samoai. Proof Silver 10 Tala Coin. Tigris Expedition / Burning of the Ship. Top Pop! NGC PF-66 Ultra Cameo!

Mint Year: 1994
References: KM-95.
Mintage: 10,000 pcs.
Denomination: 10 Tala - Tigris Expedition / Burning of the Ship.
Condition: Certified and graded by NGC as PF-66 Ultra Cameo!
Material: Silver (.925) 
Diameter: 38.6mm
Weight: 31.105gm



Thor Heyerdahl KStJ (6 October 1914 – 18 April 2002) was a Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with a background in biology with specialization in zoology, botany and geography.

He hast built a reed boat in 1977, Tigris, which was intended to demonstrate that trade and migration could have linked Mesopotamia with the Indus Valley civilization in what is now Pakistan and western India. Tigris was built in Al Qurnah Iraq and sailed with its international crew through the Persian Gulf to Pakistan and made its way into the Red Sea.

After about five months at sea and still remaining seaworthy, the Tigris was deliberately burnt in Djibouti on 3 April 1978 as a protest against the wars raging on every side in the Red Sea and Horn of Africa.

In his Open Letter to the UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, Heyerdahl explained his reasons:

Today we burn our proud ship ... to protest against inhuman elements in the world of 1978 ... Now we are forced to stop at the entrance to the Red Sea. Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti. Elsewhere around us, brothers and neighbors are engaged in homicide with means made available to them by those who lead humanity on our joint road into the third millennium.

To the innocent masses in all industrialized countries, we direct our appeal. We must wake up to the insane reality of our time ... We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned.

Our planet is bigger than the reed bundles that have carried us across the seas, and yet small enough to run the same risks unless those of us still alive open our eyes and minds to the desperate need of intelligent collaboration to save ourselves and our common civilization from what we are about to convert into a sinking ship.



In the years that followed, Heyerdahl was often outspoken on issues of international peace and the environment.

The Tigris had an 11-man crew: Thor Heyerdahl (Norway), Norman Baker (US), Carlo Mauri (Italy), Yuri Senkevich (USSR), Germán Carrasco (Mexico), Hans Petter Bohn (Norway), Rashad Nazar Salim (Iraq), Norris Brock (US), Toru Suzuki (Japan), Detlef Soitzek (Germany), and Asbjørn Damhus (Denmark).

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