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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II Spejbl
| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Weight | 3.49 g |
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| Obverse lettering | NIUE ISLAND ∙ 2016 ∙ ELIZABETH II CM ∙ 5 DOLLARS ∙ |
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| Edge | Smooth |
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Spejbl is one half of a Czech puppet duo created by Josef Skupa in Plzeň in 1920, later joined by his son Čapek-inspired Hurvínek in 1926. The pairing became so culturally embedded in Czechoslovakia that the Spejbl & Hurvínek Theatre in Prague survived nationalization, the Nazi occupation, and the Communist era without closure — a continuity almost without parallel among European puppet institutions. Niue's numismatic program has long issued collector gold for licensable intellectual properties, and this piece falls squarely in that commercial series.