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.
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.