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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Eleventh Station
| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Technique | Milled, Colored |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Full-color depiction of the Eleventh Station of the Cross, portraying the moment Jesus is nailed to the cross. The dramatic scene shows Christ lying upon the wooden cross beams on stony ground, with Roman soldiers and onlookers surrounding him; one soldier raises a hammer to drive a nail while others restrain the figure. The turbulent sky above is illuminated by lightning bolts against a darkened, fiery horizon, conveying the gravity of the Passion narrative. The scene is rendered in a rich painterly style with vivid polychromatic color printing covering the rectangular field. The Roman numeral XI appears in a rectangular cartouche at the base of the reverse, identifying this as the eleventh station. |
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Niue has long served as a convenient legal-tender vehicle for third-party mints producing themed collector series, contributing little beyond its name to the coins it licenses. This piece belongs to a "Stations of the Cross" series issued under that arrangement, with the actual production handled outside the island entirely.
The eleventh station — the nailing to the cross — is among the most iconographically demanding in the sequence, a challenge that likely drove the series toward high-relief or antique-finish treatment to distinguish individual releases from one another.