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| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Engraver(s) | Obverse: Zbyněk Fojtů, Ian Rank-Broadley Reverse: Zbyněk Fojtů |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Smooth |
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This piece belongs to a short-lived Niuean series pairing composers whose connection lies in their shared Moravian roots — Mansfeld, largely forgotten outside specialist circles, and Leoš Janáček, whose late-career operas secured him a permanent place in the repertory. Janáček spent most of his life in Brno, drawing heavily on Moravian folk speech rhythms as the structural basis for his vocal writing, a technique he called "speech melody."
The 7.78g format is the standard quarter-ounce gold specification used across dozens of collector issues from Pacific Island jurisdictions.