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2 Dollars - Elizabeth II The Card Players
| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse description | Full-field color reproduction of Paul Cézanne's celebrated Post-Impressionist painting 'The Card Players' (1892–93), applied to the reverse using digital printing technology. The scene depicts two peasant figures seated at a table engaged in a card game, rendered in Cézanne's characteristic muted earth tones and geometric compositional style. The painted image is set within a decorative silver border frame that integrates harmoniously with the square format of the coin. The combination of fine silver relief and high-fidelity color printing creates a striking numismatic presentation of this iconic work from the Musée d'Orsay collection. |
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| Mintage | 2016 - Proof - 600 |
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This piece belongs to Niue's long-running program of licensing fine art imagery for collector coinage — a revenue arrangement that has little to do with Niue itself and everything to do with the international bullion and numismatic market. The Card Players series draws on Cézanne's celebrated cycle of paintings from the early 1890s, works now scattered across major institutions including the Met and the Courtauld.
One version sold at auction in 2011 for approximately $259 million, briefly the highest price ever paid for a painting.