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2 Dollars - Elizabeth II Sergey Lifar
| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2009 |
| Type | Collector coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central colored circular vignette depicting the celebrated dancer Sergey Lifar in a dynamic mid-air pose, costumed in an elaborate green and gold orientalist theatrical outfit, set against a deep blue starlit stage background. The central image is framed by ornate white scrollwork arabesques on a black proof field. A pair of ballet slippers rendered in relief appears below the central vignette, above a cartouche bearing the name SERGEY LIFAR. The upper legend reads Russian Seasons in Paris in decorative script, while the lower field carries the inscription 1oz .999 Silver denoting the coin's fineness and weight. |
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Sergey Lifar left Soviet Ukraine in 1923 as part of a group of young dancers recruited by Diaghilev for the Ballets Russes, never returning to his homeland. He went on to dominate French ballet for decades as director of the Paris Opéra Ballet — a tenure interrupted only by postwar accusations of collaboration with the Nazi occupation, of which he was ultimately cleared. Niue's silver program in this period licensed a broad roster of cultural figures, most with no connection to the island territory itself.