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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Cathedral Notre Dame: 2/14
| Issuer | 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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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts an architectural scene commemorating the 850th anniversary of Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral, featuring highly detailed relief renderings of the cathedral's iconic Gothic facade towers at the lower left and right corners of the square field. A decorative scroll banner dominates the upper central portion of the composition, bearing the commemorative dates '1163 - 2013' in bold raised numerals, referencing the year construction of the cathedral began and the 850th anniversary year. The field between the architectural elements is left open and polished, creating a stark contrast with the finely engraved stonework details of the cathedral buttresses and decorative elements visible on the flanking tower sections. |
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Part of a fourteen-piece series issued by Niue commemorating Notre-Dame de Paris, this coin appeared four years before the April 2019 fire that destroyed the spire and much of the roof structure. The cathedral itself was begun under Bishop Maurice de Sully around 1163 and took roughly 200 years to reach substantial completion — a construction span that outlasted every monarch who commissioned new work on it.