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2 Dollars - Elizabeth II Virgin Mary
| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a full-color devotional icon of the Virgin Mary (Madonna) rendered in the Byzantine-influenced tradition, set against a softly muted grey and silver background. The Virgin is depicted in a three-quarter frontal pose, draped in a white mantle with golden highlights, cradling the Christ Child who reaches tenderly toward her face. Both figures are adorned with golden haloes, and the composition fills the entire rectangular field, emphasizing the sacred and iconographic character of the design. No inscriptions appear on the reverse. |
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Niue has operated as a licensing jurisdiction for themed bullion and collector silver since the 1990s, issuing coins under New Zealand's currency umbrella while retaining nominal face values that bear no relationship to intrinsic worth. This piece belongs to a wave of square-format religious issues produced around 2011–2013, predominantly by the Mint of Poland on behalf of various Pacific microstate licensors — a commercially driven arrangement that generated hundreds of distinct types within a few years.
KM#811 attribution places it firmly in the collector bullion category rather than any circulating series.