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2 Dollars - Elizabeth II Ponte dei Sospiri

Issuer Niue
Year 2017
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Shape Round
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Obverse script Latin
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Niue has issued commemorative silver under its own name since the 1990s, operating as a Cook Islands-adjacent program that licenses cultural and architectural subjects for collector markets. The Ponte dei Sospiri — Venice's Bridge of Sighs — takes its name from the sighs of condemned prisoners crossing it from the Doge's Palace to the adjacent prison, a romantic etymology popularized largely by Byron's 1818 verse in Childe Harold.

The bridge was completed around 1600 under the direction of Antonio Contino.

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