Part of a twelve-piece series issued by Niue reproducing Raphael's Sistine Madonna in fractional sections, this coin was struck by the Coin Invest Trust (CIT) facility in Liechtenstein under New Zealand's monetary authority over Niue's coinage program. The series was designed to be assembled as a composite image across all twelve pieces — a format CIT had refined through earlier multi-coin art projects.
Niue has no indigenous silver mining and no domestic mint, making every coin in its program a product of foreign commercial arrangement rather than sovereign production infrastructure.
Part of a twelve-piece series issued by Niue reproducing Raphael's Sistine Madonna in fractional sections, this coin was struck by the Coin Invest Trust (CIT) facility in Liechtenstein under New Zealand's monetary authority over Niue's coinage program. The series was designed to be assembled as a composite image across all twelve pieces — a format CIT had refined through earlier multi-coin art projects.
Niue has no indigenous silver mining and no domestic mint, making every coin in its program a product of foreign commercial arrangement rather than sovereign production infrastructure.