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| Issuer | Government of Niue |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Currency | Dollar of New Zealand (1987-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | 0000/3485 PUBLIC SEAL OF NIUE ATUA NIUE TUKULAGI One Dollar 1/2 oz 999 Pure Silver 2025 · ©Disney |
| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a full-length, fully colourized portrait of Mickey Mouse in his classic design, shown in a cheerful standing pose with hands on hips and a broad smile. The character is rendered in his iconic colour scheme: black body, red shorts, white gloves, and yellow shoes with a beige face. The coin's shaped planchet precisely follows the contour of Mickey Mouse's silhouette, including his distinctive round ears, giving the piece its characteristic non-circular form. The colourization is applied in vibrant, high-definition enamel-style printing, faithful to the classic Disney animated character design. |
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Niue has long operated as a licensing hub for novelty bullion, leveraging its currency agreement with New Zealand to issue legal tender coins that have no plausible circulation life. This piece combines the 2023 British coronation portrait with Disney intellectual property — a pairing that required separate licensing agreements from both the College of Arms and Disney's consumer products division.
The colourization is applied after striking via a pad-printing process, which has no effect on silver purity but complicates any future assay by visual inspection alone.