Product Overview
Historically, snakebites were seen as a means of execution in some cultures. In medieval Europe, a form of capital punishment was to throw people into snake pits, leaving victims to die from multiple venomous bites. A similar form of punishment was common in Southern Han during China’s Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period and in India. Snakebites were also used as a form of suicide, most notably by the Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII, who reportedly died from the bite of an asp—likely an Egyptian cobra after hearing of Mark Antony’s death.
- Country: Niue
- Issuing year: 2013
- Face Value: 1 Dollar
- Metal: Copper, silver plated
- Diameter: 38.61mm
- Weight: 20 grams
- Edge: Reeded
- Condition: Proof Like (PL)
- Mintage: 1,500 coins
