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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Aureus Taurus
| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse lettering | CREDE, QUOD HABES, ET HABES (Translation: Believe that you have it, and you do) |
| Edge | Reeded |
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The "Aureus Taurus" is part of a broader bullion-adjacent series issued by Niue under licensing arrangements that allowed private mints — in this case the Sunshine Minting facility — to use Niue's sovereign issuing authority to produce legal tender collectibles with no meaningful circulation history. The dollar face value is purely nominal; the coin was never intended to enter commerce in Niue or anywhere else.
Niue has been one of the more prolific issuers of this type of third-party licensed coinage since the early 2000s, a revenue mechanism for a territory of roughly 1,600 people with no domestic mint.