Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
2 Dollars - Elizabeth II Karel Poborský
| Issuer | Niue |
|---|---|
| Year | 2016 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Dollar of New Zealand (1987-date) |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II facing right, accompanied by the motif of a heart-shaped football, a symbol of the International Football Foundation. The legend around the periphery reads the issuer name, date, and denomination. The design is rendered in high relief against a mirror-polished field. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | High-relief portrait bust of Czech football legend Karel Poborský facing slightly forward, his characteristic long wavy hair rendered in fine sculptural detail. His facsimile signature appears below the bust in the lower central field, alongside the Czech lion shield emblem at lower right. The peripheral legend, partially set against a mirror-polished dark field, identifies the subject, the tournament location, the year, his runner-up achievement at the European Championship, and the silver fineness. The overall composition is executed in a refined medallic style. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Karel Poborský's place in football history rests almost entirely on a single moment: his audacious lob against Portugal at Euro 96, which remains one of the most replicated goals in Czech football and helped push the national side to the final. Niue has issued an extensive series of silver coins honoring European football legends under licensing arrangements that route through the New Zealand territory's legal coinage framework — a fiscal mechanism that has nothing to do with Niuean culture and everything to do with the island's sovereign minting rights generating collector revenue.