Niue – 2026 – 1 Dollars – Czechia (Amber Route series) 1/2oz silver

Description

The next chapter in a journey through the nine lands of the Amber Route
Original design featuring natural amber
High relief and exquisite decorations
This chapter of the Amber Route takes us to the lands of present-day Czechia and
into the world of the Germanic Marcomanni, who inhabited the region in the first
centuries AD. A Marcomannic warrior dominates the composition, while a piece of
natural amber at its heart holds a replica of a Roman coin of Aelius. The scene is enriched
with a Roman fibula and a stylised map featuring the Flumen Marus, today’s Morava
River, a Marcomannic oppidum and the inscription MARCOMANNI. Below, a caravan
of travellers makes its way through the mountain passes of the famous Moravian Gate.
“Whoever possessed amber, in a way possessed a fragment of