Hawaiian Government $3 Coupon - Queen Liliuokalani Vignette - From 1886 dated Hawaii Bond

$3 Specimen Coupon, one small hole cancellation. 1.5" x 2.5", UNC, but for usual fold. Rare and Special. Depicting Queen Liliuokalani.

Queen Liliuokalani (September 2, 1838 – November 11, 1917) holds the distinction of being the only queen regnant and the final sovereign monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom, reigning from January 29, 1891, until the kingdom's overthrow on January 17, 1893. Renowned for composing "Aloha Oe" and various other pieces, she penned her autobiography, Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen (1898), during her imprisonment following the coup.

Born in 1838 in Honolulu on the island of Oahu, Queen Liliuokalani was the biological daughter of Analea Keohoklole and Caesar Kapaakea. However, she was hnai (informally adopted) at birth by Abner Pk and Laura Knia, growing up alongside their daughter, Bernice Pauahi Bishop. She was baptized as a Christian and received her education at the Royal School. Along with her siblings and cousins, she was declared eligible for the throne by King Kamehameha III. She married John Owen Dominis, an American who later served as the Governor of Oahu. Although the couple did not have biological children, they adopted several. Following her brother David Kalkaua's ascension to the throne in 1874, she and her siblings were granted Western-style titles of Prince and Princess. After the death of her younger brother Leleiohoku II in 1877, she was named the heir apparent. During Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, she served as an official envoy to the United Kingdom on behalf of her brother.