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2 Dollars 50 Cents - Charles III Jean Sibelius
| Issuer | Niue Island |
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| Year | 2025 |
| Type | Collector coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A detailed right-facing bust portrait of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius dominates the central field, rendered in high relief with carefully modelled facial features including a moustache and tousled hair. To the left of the portrait, a partial arc of musical staff lines with floating musical notes evokes Sibelius's celebrated compositional legacy. The name JEAN SIBELIUS arcs along the left periphery, with the birth and death years 1865 and 1957 inscribed in two lines to the lower left of the portrait. The background fields show contrasting mirror and frosted proof surfaces, lending depth to the composition. |
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Jean Sibelius completed his Seventh Symphony in 1924 and then, over the following three decades until his death in 1957, produced almost nothing. The so-called "Ainola silence" — named for his Finnish estate — has never been satisfactorily explained, though drafts of an abandoned Eighth Symphony were reportedly burned in his fireplace sometime in the 1940s.