1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Studies of the Fetus in the Womb

Tokelau has become a vehicle for a sprawling range of novelty bullion issues — the atoll territory has no indigenous coinage tradition and its "mint authority" exists largely on paper, with production contracted to external facilities. This piece belongs to a series referencing Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical drawings, specifically his late-15th-century studies of fetal development, which were themselves groundbreaking for depicting the uterus opened to show the fetus in accurate position — knowledge da Vinci derived from direct human dissection at a time when the Church formally prohibited it.