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25 Dollars - Elizabeth II 1050th Anniversary of the baptism of Poland
| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Reference(s) | KM# 209 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Cross-shaped reverse depicts a high-relief antique-finished scene commemorating the Baptism of Poland in 966 AD. A robed bishop, identifiable as Saint Jordan, stands prominently holding a processional cross staff in his right hand and raising his left hand in a gesture of blessing, wearing full episcopal vestments including a mitre. Before him kneels a figure representing Duke Mieszko I, the first Christian ruler of Poland, rendered in a posture of submission and reverence beneath a stone archway suggesting an ecclesiastical setting. The dates 966 and 2016 flank the central scene in the horizontal arms of the cross, while the inscription 1050. rocznica Chrztu Polski (1050th Anniversary of the Baptism of Poland) is incused across the lower vertical arm. |
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Poland's baptism in 966 AD — the conversion of Mieszko I, almost certainly a political calculation to neutralize German missionary pressure and legitimize the Piast dynasty within the Christian European order — is treated by Polish historiography as the founding moment of the Polish state. The 1050th anniversary fell in 2016, and Poland mounted a substantial commemorative program around it. Niue's participation was purely a licensing arrangement; the coin was produced for the Polish collector market.