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100 Dollars - Elizabeth II Lily of the Valley Egg
| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Currency | Dollar of New Zealand (1987-date) |
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| Edge | Plain |
| Mint | mw Mint of Poland (Mennica Polska),Warsaw, Poland (1766-date) |
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The Lily of the Valley Egg is one of the celebrated Imperial Fabergé eggs commissioned by Tsar Nicholas II as an Easter gift for his mother, Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, and presented in 1898. The egg's surprise mechanism — a rotating bouquet of miniature gold and enamel lilies of the valley concealing portrait miniatures of Nicholas and his two eldest daughters — was considered technically extraordinary even by Fabergé's standards. The original resides in the Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation collection.
Niue has issued gold bullion coinage under licensing arrangements since the 1990s, with its Fabergé-themed series among the more commercially ambitious of these programs. At 93.3 grams of .900 gold, this piece contains approximately 2.7 troy ounces of fine gold.