Niue has become one of the more prolific issuing authorities for commemorative gold, largely because its currency relationship with New Zealand gives it legal tender status without requiring domestic circulation. This piece, struck in 2015 on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau by Soviet forces on January 27, 1945, falls into that category of numismatic commemoratives produced entirely for the collector market.
January 27 is now observed internationally as Holocaust Remembrance Day, a designation formally adopted by the United Nations in 2005.
Niue has become one of the more prolific issuing authorities for commemorative gold, largely because its currency relationship with New Zealand gives it legal tender status without requiring domestic circulation. This piece, struck in 2015 on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau by Soviet forces on January 27, 1945, falls into that category of numismatic commemoratives produced entirely for the collector market.
January 27 is now observed internationally as Holocaust Remembrance Day, a designation formally adopted by the United Nations in 2005.