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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Sitting Bull
| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Currency | Dollar of New Zealand (1987-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a detailed silver-relief bust portrait of Sitting Bull (Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake), the Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux chief and holy man, depicted wearing a large feathered war bonnet and a beaded necklace, facing left in the left portion of the field. To the right, a full-color applied image depicts a Native American warrior on horseback against a golden prairie landscape. The curved legend SITTING BULL runs along the right rim, and the birth and death years 1831-1890 appear along the lower field. |
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Sitting Bull surrendered to U.S. forces in 1881 after leading his band across the Canadian border following the Battle of Little Bighorn, spent two years as a prisoner of war, and was shot dead by Indian police on the Standing Rock reservation in 1890 during a botched arrest tied to the Ghost Dance movement. Niue's use of his likeness sits in a long tradition of Pacific island microstates licensing their sovereign minting authority to third-party bullion producers — the coin's connection to Niue itself is administrative rather than historical.