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2 Dollars - Elizabeth II Drunkenness of Noah
| Emisor | Tokelau (New Zealand) |
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| Año | 2022 |
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| Valor | 2 Dollars (Tala) 2 NZD = RSD 118 |
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| Descripción del anverso | The obverse of this rectangular gold piece features the diademed and draped effigy of Queen Elizabeth II in right-facing profile, rendered in high relief at center. The portrait is framed by an ornate baroque-style scrollwork border of acanthus leaves and foliate motifs that fills the corners and edges of the rectangular field. The legend ELIZABETH II arcs to the left of the effigy and TOKELAU 2022 arcs to the right. Beneath the portrait, a cartouche bears the Tokelau motto TOKELAU MO TE ATUA. Below in the lower field appear the denomination TWO DOLLARS and the fineness specification 1/200 OZ FINE GOLD 999/1000. |
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| Descripción del reverso | The reverse presents a full-colour reproduction of Michelangelo's fresco The Drunkenness of Noah, originally painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican (1508–1512). The scene depicts the elderly, bearded figure of Noah reclining in a semi-recumbent position in the lower left, his body unclothed and exposed in his intoxicated state, with a wine jug and bowl at his side. Three youthful male figures — his sons — stand and gesticulate around him, two of them draping a garment to cover him. The composition is set within a reeded rectangular inner border against a milled gold outer frame, faithfully reproducing the Renaissance masterwork in vivid polychrome color printing. |
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Tokelau, a non-self-governing territory administered by New Zealand, has issued an extensive range of collector gold and silver pieces since the early 2010s — almost none of which ever circulate. This piece belongs to a biblical narrative series, and at 0.1555 g it sits at exactly one-200th of a troy ounce, a fractional denomination increasingly common among Pacific island collector issues designed to bring gold ownership within lower price thresholds.
--- I need to stop and apply my own rules. I restated weight as filler and described nothing of real historical substance. Let me try again properly. ---Tokelau's collector coinage program, administered through New Zealand, has since the early 2010s used the territory's nominal issuing authority primarily to produce third-party-marketed bullion and numismatic pieces with no connection to local economic life. The subject — Noah's post-flood drunkenness, drawn from Genesis 9 — is an unusual choice even within biblical series coinage, depicting one of scripture's more uncomfortable episodes involving Ham's transgression and the subsequent cursing of Canaan.