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100 Dollars - Elizabeth II WWI Centenary: Armistice Signed
| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Composition | Gold (.9999) |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing diademed and draped effigy of Queen Elizabeth II as rendered by Ian Rank-Broadley, with the engraver's initials IRB incuse below the neck truncation. The surrounding legend reads ELIZABETH II · NIUE 2018 · 100 DOLLARS, with the purity and weight designation 1 OZ 9999 GOLD inscribed along the lower arc of the field. The portrait is set against a highly polished proof field with a partially color-enamelled black section visible on the upper left arc. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Niue's WWI centenary series leaned heavily on the commemorative gold market that surged around the 2014–2018 anniversary cycle, with multiple sovereign mints and licensing partners flooding the space with similar issues. This particular release marks the November 1918 Armistice — negotiated in a railway carriage in the Compiègne Forest — timed to the exact centenary of the ceasefire that ended four years of industrialized slaughter on the Western Front.
Niue functions here purely as a licensing jurisdiction; the actual striking was handled externally, as is standard for the island's commemorative program.