1 Dollar - Charles III Greater bilby

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.