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5 Dollars The Kiss by Gustav Klimt (14 of 15)
| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Value | 5 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | Central oval cartouche bearing the right-facing diademed and draped effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, rendered in high relief against a frosted field. The legend ELIZABETH II flanks the portrait on the left and FIVE DOLLARS on the right, both arranged along the oval border. The issuer name NIUE appears above the portrait and the date 2015 below, with the specifications 70 g and 999 FINE SILVER inscribed in the lower field outside the cartouche. The rectangular flan features rounded corners and a brushed matte finish surrounding the central design. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Niue's licensing arrangement with the Austrian National Gallery allowed this series to reproduce Klimt's 1907–08 oil painting in high relief on silver — an arrangement that required navigating Austrian cultural heritage law, as the original hangs in the Belvedere and is treated as a national artwork of near-untouchable status. The 70-gram format was chosen specifically to give the relief work enough surface area to approximate the painting's dense gilded texture.
This is the fourteenth of fifteen issues in the sequence. Collectors tracking the full run consistently report that mid-series pieces like this one surface less frequently than the first and final numbers.