5 Dollars - Elizabeth II Ma Chao

Ma Chao was a Han dynasty general whose campaigns against Cao Cao in the early 3rd century AD became the stuff of later legend, most durably through his portrayal in Luo Guanzhong's 14th-century novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. This coin belongs to Niue's ongoing series drawing from that novel's cast — a licensing and revenue arrangement that has made the small Pacific territory one of the more prolific issuers of Chinese historical themed bullion over the past decade.

The 93.3g format places it in the 3 troy ounce category, a weight class favored for large-format color-printed issues where the coin's surface area does the commercial work.