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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II FC Rubin. Ball

Issuer Niue
Year 2012
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Engraver(s) Ian Rank-Broadley
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Obverse script Cyrillic, Latin
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Reverse script Cyrillic
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Niue has operated as a prolific licensing platform for commemorative silver issues since the early 2000s, contracting with the New Zealand Mint and private distributors to produce themed collectibles well outside any domestic monetary need. This piece belongs to a FIFA-licensed series tied to international football, with individual coins issued for prominent players. Rubén "El Gato" Castro was a Chilean striker active in Spain's Segunda División — a respectable but hardly global-headline career, which makes his inclusion in a FIFA-sanctioned numismatic series a useful reminder of how broadly such licensing agreements cast their net.

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