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| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Currency | Dollar of New Zealand (1987-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | NIUE ISLAND Илья Глазунов ELIZABETH II 2015 1 DOLLAR IRB Ag 925 |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Ilya Glazunov was one of the Soviet Union's most politically complicated artists — celebrated by the state for his monumental historical paintings while simultaneously maintaining deep Russian Orthodox and nationalist convictions that should have made him a dissident. He survived by being too famous to suppress. This coin was issued the year of his 80th birthday, two years before his death in 2017.
Niue's silver dollar program has been a vehicle for Russian cultural subjects since the early 2010s, almost certainly driven by Russian wholesale distributors rather than any particular interest from the Pacific island itself.