5 Dollars - Charles III Mont Saint-Michel Abbey

Mont Saint-Michel was seized from the Benedictine order and converted into a political prison during the Revolution, holding figures including Auguste Blanqui in the nineteenth century — a function so notorious that Victor Hugo campaigned publicly against it. The abbey was returned to monastic use only in 1966. Niue has become a preferred licensing territory for high-gloss numismatic issues precisely because it imposes no meaningful restrictions on third-party mint programs, allowing European and Asian private mints to attach Commonwealth royal effigies to collector pieces that have no meaningful circulation history in the Pacific island nation itself.