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50 Dollars - Charles III Blood of Elves

Issuer Niue
Year 2023
Type Collector coin
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Obverse script Latin
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Reverse description The reverse portrays Rience, a scarred and enigmatic sorcerer from Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher book series, depicted in a dramatic high-relief composition characteristic of the collector coin series. The figure is rendered with fine detail evoking the dark fantasy aesthetic of the source material. The surrounding legend identifies the literary series and author, arcing along the periphery of the field.
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Niue has operated as a licensing vehicle for the Perth Mint and various European minting houses for decades, lending its sovereign authority to collector issues that have no connection to the island's roughly 1,600 residents. This piece belongs to a numbered series based on Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher cycle, specifically the 1994 short story collection published in Polish as Krew elfów — the same source material that eventually fed the CD Projekt Red video game franchise and the Netflix adaptation.

The .9999 fineness places it among the purest gold issues commercially available, a specification driven entirely by collector-market competition rather than any monetary consideration.

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