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80 Dollars - Charles III Thaler
| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2022-2023 |
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| Composition | Silver (.999) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features a large-scale artistic composition evoking three overlapping American silver dollars, displaying the draped busts of Liberty in left-facing profile as rendered on the early United States Flowing Hair and Draped Bust dollar types of 1794. Stars are arranged in arcs around the effigies in the manner of the original coinage, with the legend LIBERTY appearing twice across the field. To the right, an inset cartouche bears the Public Seal of Niue, surmounted by a crown and flanked by a wreath, with the motto ATUA NIUE TUKULAGI on a scroll below. The outer legend reads 80 DOLLARS and 2023 at the top, with the date 1794 repeated twice at the base of the design. |
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| Obverse lettering | 80 DOLLARS 2023 LIBERTY CM LIBERTY PUBLIC SEAL OF NIUE ATUA NIUE TUKULAGI 794 1794 |
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The "80 Dollars - Charles III Thaler" title places this squarely in the modern bullion-meets-collector market that has flourished around Commonwealth realm issues since Elizabeth II's death in September 2022. Niue, a self-governing island in free association with New Zealand, has issued collector silver under its own authority since the early 2000s, making it a favored vehicle for large-format pieces that would be administratively cumbersome to produce through the Royal Mint. The kilogram format at 100 mm puts it in direct lineage with the oversized thaler-revival pieces popularized by Austrian and German mints in the 1980s.
KM#5753 spans the accession transition year, hence the 2022–2023 date range.