1 Dollar Madonna of Czestochowa (15 of 24 coins)

The Madonna of Częstochowa, housed at the Jasna Góra monastery in southern Poland, has been a focal point of Polish national identity through every major crisis from the Swedish invasions of the 1650s to the Nazi occupation. The icon's two facial scars are historically attributed to a Hussite raid in 1430, though their precise origin remains disputed among art historians. This piece is the fifteenth in a 24-coin series issued by Niue — a South Pacific microstate whose sovereign-coin program is administered entirely through the New Zealand Mint.