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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Gdansk
| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | The fourth-generation effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, as modelled by Ian Rank-Broadley, is depicted in right-facing profile bust, diademed and draped, set within a central diamond-shaped raised panel surrounded by a stylised football (soccer ball) pattern composed of pentagonal and hexagonal segments adorned with repeated relief inscriptions referencing Poland. The legend 'NIUE ISLAND' arcs to the upper left of the central panel and '2010' appears to the upper right, while 'ELIZABETH II' runs vertically along the right side; the denomination '1 DOLLAR' appears in the lower left of the panel. The mint mark 'mw' of the Mint of Poland is present within the design. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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This piece belongs to a Polish historical cities series issued by Niue — a sovereign Pacific microstate that has licensed its coinage authority extensively since the 1990s, producing commemoratives almost entirely for the collector export market. The coins have no circulation function whatsoever in Niue itself.
Gdańsk's selection reflects its outsized role in 20th-century history: the Free City of Danzig, contested between Germany and Poland after Versailles, was the precise flashpoint where the Second World War began on 1 September 1939, when the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein opened fire on the Polish garrison at Westerplatte.