1 Dollar - Elizabeth II The Census at Bethlehem: 3/6

This piece belongs to a six-coin series issued by Niue reproducing details from Pieter Bruegel the Elder's 1566 painting The Census at Bethlehem, held at the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. Bruegel set the Biblical scene in a Flemish winter village — a deliberate displacement that made the Nativity story legible to sixteenth-century Netherlandish audiences living under Habsburg rule.

Niue has become a preferred issuing authority for this type of licensed fine-art numismatic series, its treaty relationship with New Zealand providing the legal framework for Elizabeth II's effigy on the obverse while the actual production and distribution runs through European minting houses.