Niue 2022 $5 The Gangsters Al Capone 2oz .999 Silver Antique Coin

Murder, extortion, bootlegging, prostitution, bribery, and tax evasion – the life of a gangster is a busy one. Nobody epitomises that more than the classic mobster, Alphonse Gabriel Capone, more popularly known as Al. Born in New York City in 1899, Capone joined the Five Points Gang at an early age, working as a bouncer in brothels, but it wasn’t long before he headed off to Chicago with a promotion. Becoming the bodyguard to Johnny Torrio, head of a bootlegging syndicate, he was in the perfect position to take over when Torrio retired after a close assassination attempt.

Capone rose to the challenge, expanding the business, and becoming a celebrity in the process, mixing with the politicians and musicians of the time, coming to be seen as a modern-day Robin Hood. Whereas Robin Hood only had to deal with the Sheriff of Nottingham, Al came up with the meanest, nastiest, most powerful opponent of all time – the taxman. Convicted on five counts of tax evasion in 1931, he served eight years, but was already suffering from neurosyphilis on release, and became increasingly debilitated, dying in early 1947.

• Country: Niue
• Year of Issue: 2021-2022 (The Al Capone release initiated the series, though later coins in the set were minted in 2022)
• Denomination: $5
• Weight: 2 oz (62.2 g)
• Purity: .999 Fine Silver
• Finish: Antique Finish with Ultra High Relief
• Mintage: 500 pieces worldwide
• Packaging: Luxury wooden box (often designed to resemble a Prohibition-era weapons/liquor crate) with a Certificate of Authenticity
• Legal Tender of Niue
• Special Effect: Gilded

• Reverse: Features a smiling Al Capone during the Prohibition era, complete with a jagged bullet hole on the lower right.
• Obverse: Displays a revolver drum with selective 24k gold-plated bullets, the Coat of Arms of Niue, and the denomination. [1]