1/2 Dollar - Charles III First Continental Congress

The First Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia in September 1774 — not to declare independence, but to coordinate colonial resistance to the Coercive Acts and draft a unified petition to George III. It disbanded in October having never imagined it would be superseded by a second Congress within months. Niue, a self-governing island in free association with New Zealand, has long issued numismatic commemoratives under licensing arrangements that have little connection to the subjects depicted.

Charles III's effigy appears as issuing monarch on a coin honoring a body that met to protest the policies of his ancestor.