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1 Dollar Divine Comedy - 11 of 24
| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2013 |
| Type | Collector coin |
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| Reverse description | Rectangular proof-finished silver plaque depicting a scene from Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, rendered in the engraving style of Gustave Doré. A central robed figure, hands clasped in prayer, stands elevated amid a dramatic swirling composition, flanked by kneeling and standing angelic figures with outstretched wings and arms. The background is rendered with fine engine-turned line work in warm golden tones, evoking the luminous atmosphere of the Paradiso canticle. The scene captures the ethereal, devotional quality characteristic of 19th-century Romantic illustrations of Dante's epic poem. |
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| Mintage | 2013 - - 250 |
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Niue has been a prolific vehicle for themed numismatic series since the early 2000s, its sovereignty making it a convenient issuing authority for collector programs designed and distributed almost entirely outside the island. This piece is the eleventh in a 24-coin sequence illustrating Dante's fourteenth-century poem, a format that generates collector obligation — buy one, buy all — more reliably than almost any other marketing structure in modern numismatics.
The KM#1011 reference places it firmly in the World Coin catalog's sprawling Niue section, which by the mid-2010s had grown to encompass dozens of unrelated themed series.