Silver Ounce 2024 Icons of Inspiration - Johannes Gutenberg, Coin from Niue - detailed information

Niue, a sovereign state in free association with New Zealand, uses two official legal tender currencies. The New Zealand Dollar is the circulation currency for daily transactions, while the government also authorises legal tender coins in the Niue Dollar currency for collector's purposes.

A number of mints issue a large variety of commemorative, bullion and collector coins under the authority of Niue. These coins are dedicated to historical or general popular culture themes not related to Niue itself. Many of them are in standard bullion sizes - typically, one ounce of silver (abbreviated as 1 oz Ag, where "Ag" comes from the Latin word for silver, Argentum).

This design is the eighth release in the Icons of Inspiration series by APMEX, and features Johannes Gutenberg.

Gutenberg's printing press played a transformative role in the Renaissance, facilitating the rapid speed of knowledge, ideas, and literature throughout Europe. His innovation allowed for the mass production of books by arranging movable metal type of a press, significantly reducing the time and cost of producing written material.

His first major work, the Gutenberg Bible or 42-line Bible, was printed around 1455 and became one of the earliest books produced using the movable type. This technological breakthrough revolutionized communication, education, and the dissemination of information, marking the advent of the printing revolution and laying the foundation for the democratization of knowledge. Johannes Gutenberg's contributions to the printing press had a profound and lasting impact on the course of human history.