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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Dürer Coat of Arms
| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Engraver(s) | Ian Rank-Broadley |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | New Zealand Mint, Auckland, New Zealand |
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Niue has operated as a prolific licensing hub for themed silver issues since the early 2000s, contracting with the New Zealand Mint and various European distributors to produce collector pieces that have no meaningful circulation function. This Dürer coat of arms piece belongs to a broader series drawing on Albrecht Dürer's graphic work — Dürer himself designed heraldic compositions for figures including Emperor Maximilian I, and his woodcut and engraving techniques brought a precision to armorial imagery that was unprecedented in early 16th-century printmaking.
KM#900 is a collector-market issue with a mintage controlled by demand forecasting rather than monetary policy.