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3000 Dollars - Elizabeth II Russian Royal Family
| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Value | 3000 Dollars |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents seven individual oval portrait medallions of the Romanov imperial family arranged across the flan, each labelled in Cyrillic script. Tsar Nicholas II is depicted at the top centre in military uniform with epaulettes and decorations, his bust-length portrait the most prominent. Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich occupies the central medallion, rendered in an ornate cartouche. The four Grand Duchesses — Anastasia, Tatiana, Olga, and Maria — are distributed symmetrically in the mid-field, each shown in a draped bust portrait. Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna is depicted at the bottom centre wearing an imperial crown and formal regalia. The background field is richly decorated with interlaced ornamental motifs, and double-headed eagle devices appear between the upper portrait medallions. |
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Niue has long served as a licensing jurisdiction for third-party commemorative programs, and this piece is a product of that arrangement rather than any organic connection between the island territory and Russian imperial history. The $3,000 face value is a legal formality — Niue's nominal GDP makes such a denomination absurd in circulation terms, and no piece of this type ever circulated.
The Romanov family's centenary of execution fell in 2018, making a 2010 issue a calendar oddity with no obvious commemorative anchor in that year's Russian or numismatic calendar.