5 Dollars - Elizabeth II Divine Mercy

Divine Mercy as a formal Catholic devotion was suppressed by the Vatican in 1959, deemed theologically irregular, then fully rehabilitated in 1978 — a reversal closely tied to Karol Wojtyła, who as Archbishop of Kraków had quietly protected its practice in Poland throughout the ban. His election as John Paul II that same year set the devotion on a path toward global canonization, culminating in the 2000 canonization of its originator, Sister Faustina Kowalska. Niue's numismatic program has long licensed religious and cultural themes as a revenue mechanism, given the island's population of roughly 1,600.