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10 Dollars Brunelleschi Dome - 8 of 9
| Issuer | Government of Niue |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Value | 10 Dollars |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 2014 - - 500 |
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Niue has been a prolific vehicle for themed collector silver since the early 2000s, its sovereignty conveniently available for licensing to foreign minting programs — in this case almost certainly produced by the Polish Mint (Mennica Polska), which handled the bulk of Niue's architectural series around this period. This piece is the eighth in a nine-coin series commemorating Filippo Brunelleschi's dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, completed in 1436 after over sixteen years of construction without the use of centering — a feat not fully understood by engineers until centuries later.
The nine-part format allowed the issuer to serialize the release across multiple years, maximizing collector demand through deliberate incompleteness.