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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Aries

Issuer Niue
Year 2011
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Diameter 38.61 mm
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Obverse script Latin
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Edge Reeded
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Additional information

Niue's legal tender coinage exists almost entirely as a licensing vehicle — the island's GDP would not support a domestic coin program, and these issues were struck for the collector market under New Zealand's monetary umbrella. The Aries piece is part of a twelve-coin zodiac series produced for Niue by a third-party mint, almost certainly the Valcambi or Pobjoy facilities that handled the bulk of Niue's themed silver output in this period.

KM#495 attribution places it firmly in the documented series, though mintage figures for individual zodiac signs within the set varied depending on subscription demand.

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