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'''[[Mount Moulton]]''' is a broad, [[ice]]-covered shield volcano standing 16 km (10 mi) E of [[Mount Berlin]] in the [[Flood Range]] of [[Westarctica]].
The '''[[$10 Westarctican Dollars Coin]]''' or '''$10 WAD coin''' has been a popular and frequently-produced denomination of [[Westarctica]]'s [[Coins of Westarctica|coins]]. $10 WAD coins were minted by the [[Central Bank of Westarctica]] in the years 2005, 2008, and 2011 in a total of five different designs.


Mount Moulton was discovered on aerial flights by the United States [[Antarctica|Antarctic]] Service in 1940, and named for Richard S. Moulton, chief dog driver at West Base and a member of the survey party which sledged to the western end of the Flood Range in December 1940.
Historically, the $10 WAD coins paid homage to the ruler of Westarctica, however, when the 2011 mintage was created, it was the year following the [[The Great Return|overthrow]] of [[Grand Duke Jon-Lawrence]], therefore Westarctica had no Grand Duke upon the throne.


Lengthy ice cores have recently been extracted from Moulton, yielding an age of about a half million years by dating the various tephra layers embedded within the ice. These cores are being used to reconstruct a climatic record stretching back for 480,000 years which can be compared to that from ice cores in the main [[East Antarctic Ice Sheet]].  
The 2005 $10 Westarctican Dollars coin was the third coin minted by the Central Bank and the first bearing a likeness of a person. It features an image of [[Grand Duke Travis]] on the obverse, which was created from a portrait session. The reverse provides a rare example of a color version of Westarctica's arms as they were in 2005.


In 2005, Jon-Lawrence Langer, a long-time supporter of Westarctica and member of the [[Grand Ducal Cabinet]], was granted the combined duchies of Mount Moulton and [[Mount Berlin]].  His new title, [[Duke of Moulton-Berlin]], gave him control over the entire mountain range.
The 2008 $10 WAD coin is one of the smallest coins produced by the Central Bank and one of the few coins with a reeded edge, as well as one of the few tri-metal coins (the three metals being copper, nickel, and brass). On the obverse, the coin has a stylized map of Antarctica superimposed by a compass with an [[emperor penguin]] in the east direction and the arms of Westrctica in the north direction.


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