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10 Dollars - Charles III Thaler
| Issuer | Government of Niue |
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| Year | 2022-2023 |
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| Composition | Gold (.9999) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse presents a layered, coin-within-coin composition evoking the iconography of early American coinage. Three overlapping draped busts of Liberty, rendered in varying scales and facing right, are arranged across the field in the manner of the 1794 Flowing Hair dollar design, with long flowing hair and classical drapery at the truncation. Thirteen six-pointed stars arc around the central busts, and the dates 1794 appear in the lower exergue flanking a central star. To the upper right, an inset circular cartouche bears the Public Seal of Niue, crowned and surrounded by the legend PUBLIC SEAL OF NIUE with the motto ATUA NIUE TUKULAGI on a scroll below crossed spears. The denomination 10 DOLLARS and date 2022 are inscribed along the upper border, with the legend LIBERTY arcing above the central busts and the Czech Mint mark CM visible at upper right. |
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| Mintage | 2022 CM - Bullion - 5,000 2023 CM - Bullion - 5,000 |
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The "Charles III Thaler" branding is a direct commercial callback to the large silver trade coins of 16th–18th century Europe, a format Niue's mint partners have leaned on repeatedly to position small gold bullion issues within a pseudo-historical frame. Niue itself has no independent monetary history worth speaking of — its coinage program exists entirely as a licensing arrangement, with the New Zealand territory granting legal tender status to issues it will never actually circulate.
The 2022–2023 date span reflects production bridging Charles III's accession following Elizabeth II's death in September 2022.