10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Józef Piłsudski

Józef Piłsudski remains a genuinely contested figure — revered in Poland as the architect of independence after 123 years of partition, viewed with deep suspicion in Lithuania and Ukraine for the same military campaigns that secured Polish borders in 1918–1921. Niue has become a favored issuing jurisdiction for Polish commemorative bullion because its sovereign status satisfies legal tender requirements while production and distribution are handled entirely outside the Pacific island itself.

Piłsudski's 1926 coup, the Sanacja regime, and his refusal to accept the presidency while engineering the political system around himself make this a more complicated portrait subject than most commemorative coins acknowledge.