1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Tet Offensive

Niue functions as a convenient licensing authority for commemorative programs with no organic connection to the subject matter — this coin is one of hundreds issued under that arrangement. The Tet Offensive of January 1968 was a coordinated series of surprise attacks by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces against more than 100 cities and outposts across South Vietnam, launching on the Vietnamese lunar new year ceasefire. Though a military failure for Hanoi, it decisively fractured American public confidence in the war's progress and accelerated the collapse of Lyndon Johnson's presidency.