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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II The conquest of the South Pole
| Issuer | Government of Niue |
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| Year | 2021 |
| Type | Collector coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | DOBÝVÁNÍ JIŽNÍHO PÓLU MD |
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Roald Amundsen's party reached the South Pole on 14 December 1911, beating Robert Falcon Scott by thirty-three days. Scott's entire polar party died on the return journey. The centenary of that expedition generated a wave of commemorative issues across multiple mints; this Niuean piece arrives a decade late for that wave, issued in 2021 on the 110th anniversary — a less conventional milestone, though not unprecedented in the commemorative market.
Niue has functioned since the 1990s as a licensing vehicle for the New Zealand Mint, producing legal-tender gold and silver issues that circulate nowhere but trade actively with collectors worldwide.