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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II The Mystic Nativity: 13/15
| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Technique | Milled, Colored |
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| Obverse description | Effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, rendered in the fourth definitive portrait as sculpted by Ian Rank-Broadley, wearing the Diamond Diadem. The legend ELIZABETH II arcs along the upper periphery, flanked by the date 2013, with NIUE ISLAND inscribed along the right field. The portrait is executed in frosted relief against a mirror-polished field, consistent with proof coinage standards. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Part of a limited devotional series issued by Niue through the New Zealand Mint, this piece reproduces Botticelli's Mystic Nativity of c. 1500 — one of the few paintings the artist signed, and the only one he dated. The inscription Botticelli added references the Apocalypse of St. John and reflects the millenarian influence of Savonarola's preaching in Florence, making the original work as much a political document as a devotional one.
Position 13 of 15 in the series. The New Zealand Mint produced this type under a long-standing arrangement with Niue that has made the territory a prolific issuer of collector coinage since the 1990s.