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250 Dollars - Charles III Fortune Dragon
| Issuer | New Zealand Mint (Te Kamupene Whakanao o Aotearoa) |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Diameter | 40 mm |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed right-facing effigy of King Charles III occupying the central field, rendered in high relief with naturalistic detail of the monarch's facial features and hair. The circumferential legend reads CHARLES III · NIUE 2025 · 250 DOLLARS, divided across the upper arc, while the lower arc carries the purity and weight inscription · 1oz 9999 GOLD ·. The engraver's initials JC appear below and to the right of the portrait truncation. The design is attributed to sculptor Julius Csotonyi and strikes with a polished proof finish. |
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| Reverse description | An elaborately detailed Chinese-style fortune dragon rendered in high relief coils sinuously across the entire field, its scaled body spiralling from the lower right toward the upper left where the fierce, maned head gazes outward. Decorative floral and cloud motifs fill the background field. In the upper right quadrant, a circular inlaid Meissen porcelain medallion is set flush into the gold, displaying a cobalt-blue brushwork design of crossed swords — the historic hallmark of the Meissen manufactory — hand-painted on a white glazed ground. The reverse is without peripheral legend, allowing the dragon design and the porcelain insert to dominate the composition entirely. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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