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5 Dollars The Kiss by Gustav Klimt (10 of 15)
| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Central circular medallion bearing the right-facing diademed and draped effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, rendered in the Ian Rank-Broadley portrait style. The legend ELIZABETH II flanks the effigy vertically on the left, while FIVE DOLLARS appears vertically on the right, and NIUE is inscribed horizontally at the top, all within a beaded border. The date 2015 appears below the medallion, with the specifications 70 g and 999 FINE SILVER inscribed in the lower field of the rectangular flan. The surrounding field of the rectangular planchet displays a brushed matte finish, contrasting with the polished medallion relief. |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II NIUE FIVE DOLLARS 2015 70 g .999 FINE SILVER |
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Niue has become one of the more prolific issuers of large-format silver art coins under licensing arrangements that have little to do with the island's 1,600 residents and everything to do with the secondary collector market. This piece belongs to a fifteen-coin series reproducing Klimt's 1907–08 painting, which itself now hangs in the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere in Vienna — acquired by the Austrian state in 1908 for 25,000 crowns, one of the few major Klimt works that never left Austria during the dispersals of the mid-twentieth century.