2 Dollars 50 Cents - Charles III Modernist Kaunas

Niue's agreement with the New Zealand Treasury allows it to issue legal tender coinage despite having no independent monetary system of its own — a arrangement that has made the 2-square-kilometer island a prolific vehicle for international bullion and collector programs. This piece is part of a broader modernist architecture series honoring interwar European civic buildings, with Kaunas having served as Lithuania's provisional capital from 1919 to 1939 after Vilnius was seized by Poland.

The Kaunas of that period saw an ambitious state-sponsored building program that produced some of the most concentrated Art Deco and functionalist architecture in the Baltic region.