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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II The Mystic Nativity: 14/15
| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#2015 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Niue has served as a vehicle for novelty bullion issues since the 1990s, lending its sovereign status to coins with no meaningful connection to the island. This piece belongs to a fifteen-part series reproducing Botticelli's Mystic Nativity — a painting completed around 1500 that Botticelli himself annotated with an apocalyptic Greek inscription referencing the tribulations of Italy under Savonarola's influence and the French invasion.
The fractional-panel format was a marketing conceit of the early 2010s collectibles market. KM#2015 is the fourteenth installment.