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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;WingedLiberty, post: 931321, member: 26030&quot;]What do you all think of this?</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin is silver (one ounce) and contains an insert of red Amber.</p><p>It&#039;s a 2010 coin with a maximum mintage of 10,000 and a face value of $1.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of the more interesting modern coins i&#039;ve seen.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s from the Island Nation of Niue (which is independent but has close ties to New Zealand)</p><p><img src="http://mindstar.com/Niue_One_Dollar.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>One side is modeled after an ancient coin which&nbsp; comes from Stare Hradisko. Below is the insert of&nbsp; genuine amber and below that the &quot;Stare Hradisko&quot; inscription. </p><p><br /></p><p>The&nbsp; other side shows an effigy of Queen&nbsp; Elizabeth II to the left. To the right is the image of a horse and cart,&nbsp; the sort used to transport amber from the Baltic regions back to Rome.&nbsp;&nbsp; Above is the image of a Centurion and a map of the Baltic area where the&nbsp; amber was mined. In the bottom portion is the year of issue, face value&nbsp; and country of issue.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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