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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II Carmen
| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Currency | Dollar of New Zealand (1987-date) |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing diademed and draped bust effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, wearing a tiara and pearl earring, rendered in high relief against a decorative field depicting parted theatrical stage curtains with tasselled ties. The engraver's initials IRB appear below the bust. The lower arc of the legend reads ELIZABETH II NIUE 5 DOLLARS, with the date 2022 and the specification 2 oz Ag 999 inscribed in the lower field. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Niue has been a vehicle for commemorative issues licensed through the New Zealand Mint since the 1990s, its sovereignty providing issuing authority for coins that have no practical connection to the island's roughly 1,500 residents. This piece is part of that machinery — a bullion-format collector item aimed squarely at the secondary market, not circulation.
Carmen, Bizet's 1875 opera, premiered to a hostile Paris reception and the composer died believing it a failure. He never learned it would become one of the most performed operas in history.