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| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Currency | Dollar of New Zealand (1987-date) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Niue has operated a prolific commemorative bullion program since the 1990s, licensing external designs — often artistic or pop-cultural — to generate seigniorage revenue from foreign collectors rather than domestic circulation. This piece draws on the Art Nouveau work of Alphonse Mucha, the Czech painter whose decorative poster commissions for Sarah Bernhardt in 1890s Paris made his style instantly recognizable a century later.
Mucha himself died in 1939, weeks after being interrogated by the Gestapo following the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. His estate and the Mucha Foundation have since actively licensed his imagery across commercial products — this coin among them.