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1 Dollar - Charles III Greater bilby
| Issuer | Government of Niue |
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| Year | 2026 |
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| Value | 1 Dollar 1 NZD = RSD 58 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A detailed naturalistic scene depicting two Greater Bilbies (Macrotis lagotis) foraging at night in an arid Australian landscape. The foreground animal faces right in three-quarter view, rendered in high relief with fine engraving of fur texture, prominent elongated ears, and elongated pointed snout; a second bilby is shown in the middle ground facing left. Sparse native grasses occupy the lower foreground, while rugged rocky outcrops rise in the background beneath a large full moon. The curved legend AUSTRALIA AT NIGHT arcs along the upper left periphery, with the subtitle GREATER BILBY inscribed below it. The contrasting matte and proof surfaces evoke the nocturnal atmosphere of the subject. |
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Niue has operated as a licensing jurisdiction for commemorative coinage since the 1990s, issuing coins on behalf of collectors with no pretense of domestic circulation — the island's population sits under 2,000. The Australian greater bilby, an endangered marsupial that has become a cultural stand-in for Easter in parts of Australia, provides the subject here. Conservation-themed issues tied to the bilby have proliferated across Australian and Pacific mint programs since the early 2000s, partly driven by advocacy groups that lobbied to replace the introduced rabbit in holiday iconography with a native species facing genuine extinction pressure.