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2 Dollars - Elizabeth II Flanders Poppy
| Uitgever | Government of Niue |
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| Jaar | 2018 |
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| Graveur(s) | Ian Rank-Broadley |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II after the fourth portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley, depicting the Queen wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara. The legend ELIZABETH II is inscribed along the left arc, NIUE along the upper arc, and TWO DOLLARS along the right arc. The date 2018 appears in the lower field, with the engraver's initials IRB positioned beneath the truncation of the bust. |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | ELIZABETH II NIUE TWO DOLLARS IRB 2018 |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
Niue has operated as a prolific licensing jurisdiction for commemorative silver since the 1990s, issuing coins under New Zealand's currency agreement that give the pieces legal tender status without any expectation of circulation. This particular issue draws on the red poppy's association with Flemish battlefield casualties from the First World War — a symbol that entered mass culture through John McCrae's 1915 poem "In Flanders Fields," written at the Ypres Salient shortly after McCrae watched a fellow officer buried there.
The applied or enameled poppy element on coins of this type is a production feature sourced through specialist minting contractors, not the issuing sovereign's own facility.